His Time – Lutheran Senior Services, Gospel of Mark Presentation, Church Calendar, Unity in the Body of Christ

Segment 1
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Jane Wilke, the Administrator of Communications at Lutheran Senior Services, discusses how we need to care for our Senior Citizens.

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Lutheran Senior Services is a faith-based, mission-driven not-for-profit network that specializes in enhancing life for seniors, ages 62-plus. With 19 locations in Missouri and Illinois, we offer quality choices and exceptional support for retirement living. Through affordable housing sites, in-home services and senior living communities, they provide a person-centered approach to a comprehensive continuum of life choices. Building upon a tradition of excellence for more than 150 years, Lutheran Senior Services is fulfilling its Christian mission of Older Adults Living Life to the Fullest.

Segment 2

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Dr. James W. Voelz, Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, talks about the Gospel of Mark Presentation to be held on September 9, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the Cardinal Rigali Center Auditorium in Saint Louis County.

Rev. Parviz

The Church Calendar Before the Incarnation
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Bible Feasts — Pastor Parviz, Congregation Chai V’shalom and Andy Bates discuss Bible Feasts and the church calendar before the incarnation of Christ.

Daily Lectionary
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Rev. Everette Greene of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Cincinnati, OH looks at Ephesians 4:1-24 “Unity in the Body of Christ”. (Scroll down to read the text.)

Matins Sermonette
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Today’s sermonette is given by Rev. Everette Greene of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Cincinnati, OH.

Ephesians 4:1-24

“The Bible is cradle wherein Christ is laid.” – Martin Luther

Unity in the Body of Christ

4 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore it says,

“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.”[a]

9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?[b] 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds[c] and teachers,[d] 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,[e] to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

The New Life

17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self,[f] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Footnotes:

Ephesians 4:8 The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women

Ephesians 4:9 Or the lower parts of the earth?

Ephesians 4:11 Or pastors

Ephesians 4:11 Or the shepherd-teachers

Ephesians 4:13 Greek to a full-grown man

Ephesians 4:22 Greek man; also verse 24