Thursday Evenings at All Hallows (August 13, 2026)
In this evening’s message we give thought to how God speaks to us through the prophets of the Old Testament. The warnings they gave to the people of their time also contain warnings for us in our time.
GATHER IN GOD’S NAME
Open this link in a new tab to hear Mark Hayes’ arrangement of Marty Haugen’s TWO OAKS (All Are Welcome) for solo piano.
Silence
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth
stand in awe of him. Psalm 96:9
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us. But if we confess our sins, God is faithful and
just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:8-9
Let us now confess our sins to almighty God.
Silence
Almighty and most merciful Father,
we have strayed from your ways like lost sheep.
We have followed too much
the devices and the desires of our own hearts.
we have offended against your holy laws,
we have left undone what we ought to have done,
and we have done what we ought not to have done.
Yet, good Lord, have mercy on us;
restore those who are penitent,
according to your promises declared
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Grant, most merciful Father, for his sake,
that we may live a godly, righteous, and sober lives,
to the glory of your holy name. Amen.
Merciful Lord,
grant to your faithful people pardon and peace,
that we may be cleansed from all our sins,
and serve you with a quiet mind;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Open our lips, O Lord;
And we shall declare your praise.
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory to God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:
as in the beginning, so now, and for ever. Amen.
Let us praise the Lord.
The Lord’s name be praised.
Open this link in a new tab to hear Christopher Idle’s “Light of Gladness, Lord of Glory.”
1 Light of gladness, Lord of glory,
Jesus Christ our king most holy,
shine among us in your mercy:
earth and heaven join their hymn.
2 Let us sing at sun's descending
as we see the lights of evening,
Father, Son, and Spirit praising
with the holy seraphim.
3 Son of God, through all the ages
worthy of our holiest praises,
yours the life that never ceases,
light which never shall grow dim.
Open this link in a new tab to hear Noel Rawsthorne’s arrangement of “I Will Lift up Mine Eyes unto the Hills” (Psalm 121).
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,
from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh even from the LORD,
who hath made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:
and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD himself is thy keeper:
The Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;
6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day,
neither the moon by night
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil:
Yea, it is even He that shall keep thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in
from this time forth for evermore.
Silence
Lord, ever watchful and faithful,
we look to you to be our defence
and we lift our hearts to know your help;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
THE MINISTRY OF THE WORD
A reading from the Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah 7:9-15
‘“Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,[ and swear by false gods,] burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, ‘We are safe’– safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
‘“Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory.
Silence
Opens this link in a new tab to hear Timothy Dudley Smith’s “Tell Out, My Soul” (Magnificat).
1 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!
Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice;
tender to me the promise of his Word;
in God my Savior shall my heart rejoice.
2 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his name!
Make known his might, the deeds his arm has done;
his mercy sure, from age to age the same;
his holy name, the Lord, the Mighty One.
3 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his might!
Powers and dominions lay their glory by.
Proud hearts and stubborn wills are put to flight,
the hungry fed, the humble lifted high.
4 Tell out, my soul, the glories of his Word!
Firm is his promise, and his mercy sure.
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord
to children's children and forevermore!
A reading from Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 12:1-12
Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to dumb idols. Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, ‘Jesus be cursed,’ and no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[or languages] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[or languages] All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
May your word live in us
and bear much fruit to your glory.
Silence
Open this link in a new tab to hear Timothy Dudley Smith’s "Faithful Vigil Ended" (Nunc dimittis).
1 Faithful vigil ended,
watching, waiting cease
Master, grant your servant
his discharge in peace.
2 All the Spirit promised,
all the Father willed
now these eyes behold it
perfectly fulfilled.
3 This your great deliverance
sets your people free
Christ their light uplifted
all the nations see.
4 Christ, your people's glory!
Watching, doubting cease
grant to us your servants
our discharge in peace.
“Don't be a Jeremiah!” You seldom if ever hear people say that these days. But sometimes we need a Jeremiah to tell us what we don’t want to hear.
One of the challenges of interpreting and applying Scripture is relating what is said in a passage of Scripture to our own time, our circumstances, and ourselves. In this evening’s message I am going to look at how this evening’s Old Testament reading, Jeremiah 7:9-15, and the opening verses of this evening’s New Testament reading, 1 Corinthians 12:1-3, offer a warning to Christians living in the twenty-first century.
In the Old Testament reading, God, speaking through the prophet Jeremiah, takes the Judaeans to task for their disregard of the commandments God gave to Moses. The Judaeans were the inhabitants of the southern kingdom of Judah, one of the two kingdoms into which the kingdom of Israel was divided upon the death of King Solomon.
During the early years of his reign Solomon built the first Temple at Jerusalem, the capitol of his kingdom. In his later years Solomon wavered in his devotion to God, married foreign wives, erected idols of their gods in the Temple, and participated in the worship of these gods.
Solomon’s faithlessness would have negative consequences for his kingdom—its division into two kingdoms upon his death. The two kingdoms would fall to foreign invaders, first the northern kingdom of Samaria to the Assyrians, and then the southern kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians.
In the Old Testament the fall of the two kingdoms is attributed to the faithlessness of their kings and people. Jeremiah was a prophet during the time that the Babylonians invaded Judah. and laid siege to Jerusalem.
What stands out in the Old Testament reading is how the Judeans convinced themselves into believing that they could do what they were doing with impunity, without fear of any consequences. As God warns them through Jeremiah, they will face consequences for what they are doing, real consequences in this life!
Jerusalem would fall to the Babylonians, and the kingdom of Judah would become a vassal state of Babylon. The Judeans would rebel against their new overlord and refused to pay tribute to the Babylonian king. The Babylonians crushed the rebellion, sacked Jerusalem, and pillaged the Temple. A large number of Judeans were taken into captivity during this period. Uprooting and relocating conquered populations was a common practice in the ancient Middle East. As for Jeremiah, a group of Judeans fled to Egypt, taking him with them against his will.
If we are honest with ourselves, we are not too different from the people of Judah. By “we” I am referring to those who believe themselves to be Christians in the twenty-first century. Being a Christian means literally someone who belongs to Christ, a sheep of his flock as our relationship to Christ is described in John’s Gospel.
Faithlessness besets us as it did those ancient people. While we may not sacrifice bullocks and burn incense to brazen images or images of wood or stone, we have idols which we serve, people and things that we serve in place of God. Like the people of Judah, we convince ourselves that we can do what we are doing without suffering any consequences for what we are doing.
Jesus taught his disciples to examine themselves and deal with their own shortcomings before drawing someone else’s attention to their failings and offering to help them correct their shortcomings. Our failings may be greater than theirs and in comparison to ours their shortcomings may be inconsequential.
Jesus recognized the very human tendency to look for the worst in other people and exaggerate whatever negative traits we may find or imagine them to have. He also recognized our tendency to downplay or ignore the negative qualities of our own character. These two tendencies and refusing to accept responsibility for our own actions and blaming others for them are common human traits. Being common, however, does not make them right or acceptable. From a spiritual perspective they point to the sinfulness of unregenerate human nature, human nature untransformed by the Holy Spirit.
In his First Letter to the Corinthians and other writings the apostle Paul identifies as one of the things that sets Christians apart is the gift of the Holy Spirit, God’s indwelling presence and power. As he points to our attention in the opening verses of this evening’s New Testament reading, it is the Holy Spirit that enables us to affirm that Jesus is Lord, to say it but most importantly believe what we are saying and to act upon it. The Holy Spirit enables us not only to recognize who Jesus is and the significance of what he did and what it means for us but also to recognize his words, his teaching, to be what he claimed them to be—what he had heard from the Father. This includes recognizing Jesus as our final authority in how we interpret the Old Testament.
In these verses Paul also points to our attention that the Holy Spirit does not inspire negative reactions to Jesus, his saving work, or his teaching. Three examples of such reactions are the rejection of Jesus’ divinity, the portrayal of the signs and wonders he performed as myths, and the dismissal of his teaching as unmanly and woke. The culprit is most likely sinful human nature. However, we cannot rule out the influence of those spiritual forces that are opposed God and which seek to harm to our relationship with God.
God’s warning to people of Judah that their faithfulness would have consequences is a warning that we would do well to heed ourselves. Our failings are not limited to one camp in the Church as we might like to believe, the camp that is not the one to which we belong. They are spread throughout the whole Church. What Jesus said about examining ourselves and dealing with our own shortcomings first also applies to all the camps in the Church—conservative, progressive, and those-in-between. It means recognizing that some beliefs and practices we have embraced are leading us away from God. We need to set our own house in order before we offer to help tidy up someone else’s.
Silence
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father
almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
THE MINISTRY OF PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Lord, show us your mercy,
and grant us your salvation.
Keep our nation under your care,
and guide us in justice and truth.
Clothe your ministers with righteousness,
and make your chosen people joyful.
Lord, save your people,
and bless your inheritance.
Give peace in our time, O Lord,
for you are our help and strength.
Create in us dean hearts, O God,
and renew us by your Holy Spirit.
Let your merciful ears, Lord God, be open to the prayers
Open this link in a new tab to hear Timothy Dudley Smith’s "Faithful Vigil Ended" (Nunc dimittis).
1 Faithful vigil ended,
watching, waiting cease
Master, grant your servant
his discharge in peace.
2 All the Spirit promised,
all the Father willed
now these eyes behold it
perfectly fulfilled.
3 This your great deliverance
sets your people free
Christ their light uplifted
all the nations see.
4 Christ, your people's glory!
Watching, doubting cease
grant to us your servants
our discharge in peace.
A Warning from the Past
“Don't be a Jeremiah!” You seldom if ever hear people say that these days. But sometimes we need a Jeremiah to tell us what we don’t want to hear.
One of the challenges of interpreting and applying Scripture is relating what is said in a passage of Scripture to our own time, our circumstances, and ourselves. In this evening’s message I am going to look at how this evening’s Old Testament reading, Jeremiah 7:9-15, and the opening verses of this evening’s New Testament reading, 1 Corinthians 12:1-3, offer a warning to Christians living in the twenty-first century.
In the Old Testament reading, God, speaking through the prophet Jeremiah, takes the Judaeans to task for their disregard of the commandments God gave to Moses. The Judaeans were the inhabitants of the southern kingdom of Judah, one of the two kingdoms into which the kingdom of Israel was divided upon the death of King Solomon.
During the early years of his reign Solomon built the first Temple at Jerusalem, the capitol of his kingdom. In his later years Solomon wavered in his devotion to God, married foreign wives, erected idols of their gods in the Temple, and participated in the worship of these gods.
Solomon’s faithlessness would have negative consequences for his kingdom—its division into two kingdoms upon his death. The two kingdoms would fall to foreign invaders, first the northern kingdom of Samaria to the Assyrians, and then the southern kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians.
In the Old Testament the fall of the two kingdoms is attributed to the faithlessness of their kings and people. Jeremiah was a prophet during the time that the Babylonians invaded Judah. and laid siege to Jerusalem.
What stands out in the Old Testament reading is how the Judeans convinced themselves into believing that they could do what they were doing with impunity, without fear of any consequences. As God warns them through Jeremiah, they will face consequences for what they are doing, real consequences in this life!
Jerusalem would fall to the Babylonians, and the kingdom of Judah would become a vassal state of Babylon. The Judeans would rebel against their new overlord and refused to pay tribute to the Babylonian king. The Babylonians crushed the rebellion, sacked Jerusalem, and pillaged the Temple. A large number of Judeans were taken into captivity during this period. Uprooting and relocating conquered populations was a common practice in the ancient Middle East. As for Jeremiah, a group of Judeans fled to Egypt, taking him with them against his will.
If we are honest with ourselves, we are not too different from the people of Judah. By “we” I am referring to those who believe themselves to be Christians in the twenty-first century. Being a Christian means literally someone who belongs to Christ, a sheep of his flock as our relationship to Christ is described in John’s Gospel.
Faithlessness besets us as it did those ancient people. While we may not sacrifice bullocks and burn incense to brazen images or images of wood or stone, we have idols which we serve, people and things that we serve in place of God. Like the people of Judah, we convince ourselves that we can do what we are doing without suffering any consequences for what we are doing.
Jesus taught his disciples to examine themselves and deal with their own shortcomings before drawing someone else’s attention to their failings and offering to help them correct their shortcomings. Our failings may be greater than theirs and in comparison to ours their shortcomings may be inconsequential.
Jesus recognized the very human tendency to look for the worst in other people and exaggerate whatever negative traits we may find or imagine them to have. He also recognized our tendency to downplay or ignore the negative qualities of our own character. These two tendencies and refusing to accept responsibility for our own actions and blaming others for them are common human traits. Being common, however, does not make them right or acceptable. From a spiritual perspective they point to the sinfulness of unregenerate human nature, human nature untransformed by the Holy Spirit.
In his First Letter to the Corinthians and other writings the apostle Paul identifies as one of the things that sets Christians apart is the gift of the Holy Spirit, God’s indwelling presence and power. As he points to our attention in the opening verses of this evening’s New Testament reading, it is the Holy Spirit that enables us to affirm that Jesus is Lord, to say it but most importantly believe what we are saying and to act upon it. The Holy Spirit enables us not only to recognize who Jesus is and the significance of what he did and what it means for us but also to recognize his words, his teaching, to be what he claimed them to be—what he had heard from the Father. This includes recognizing Jesus as our final authority in how we interpret the Old Testament.
In these verses Paul also points to our attention that the Holy Spirit does not inspire negative reactions to Jesus, his saving work, or his teaching. Three examples of such reactions are the rejection of Jesus’ divinity, the portrayal of the signs and wonders he performed as myths, and the dismissal of his teaching as unmanly and woke. The culprit is most likely sinful human nature. However, we cannot rule out the influence of those spiritual forces that are opposed God and which seek to harm to our relationship with God.
God’s warning to people of Judah that their faithfulness would have consequences is a warning that we would do well to heed ourselves. Our failings are not limited to one camp in the Church as we might like to believe, the camp that is not the one to which we belong. They are spread throughout the whole Church. What Jesus said about examining ourselves and dealing with our own shortcomings first also applies to all the camps in the Church—conservative, progressive, and those-in-between. It means recognizing that some beliefs and practices we have embraced are leading us away from God. We need to set our own house in order before we offer to help tidy up someone else’s.
Silence
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father
almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
THE MINISTRY OF PRAYER
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Lord, show us your mercy,
and grant us your salvation.
Keep our nation under your care,
and guide us in justice and truth.
Clothe your ministers with righteousness,
and make your chosen people joyful.
Lord, save your people,
and bless your inheritance.
Give peace in our time, O Lord,
for you are our help and strength.
Create in us dean hearts, O God,
and renew us by your Holy Spirit.
Let your merciful ears, Lord God, be open to the prayers
of your people; and so that they may obtain their petitions,
make them to ask such things as will please you; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Eternal God, from whom all holy desires, all good purposes,
and all just works proceed: give to your servants that peace
which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to
obey your commandments, and that free from the fear of our
enemies we may pass our time in trust and quietness;
through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
Lighten our darkness, Lord, we pray: and in your great
mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night;
for the love of your only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Open this link in a new tab to hear Scot Crandal’s arrangement of James Quinn’s “Christ Be Beside Me” for SAB Choir and Assembly.
1 Christ be beside me, Christ be before me,
Christ be behind me, King of my heart.
Christ be within me, Christ be below me,
Christ be above me, never to part.
2 Christ on my right hand, Christ on my left hand,
Christ all around me, shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping, Christ in my sitting,
Christ in my rising, light of my life.
3 Christ be in all hearts thinking about me,
Christ be on all tongues telling of me.
Christ be the vision in eyes that see me,
In ears that hear me Christ ever be,
Christ ever be.
Silence is kept.
Those present may offer their own prayers and thanksgivings, either silently or aloud.
Gracious God,
you have given us much today;
grant us also a thankful spirit.
Into your hands we commend ourselves
and those we love.
Be with us still, and when we take our rest
renew us for the service of your Son Jesus Christ.
Amen.
In darkness and in light,
in trouble and in joy,
help us, heavenly Father,
to trust your love,
to serve your purpose,
and to praise your name,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Open this link in a new tab to hear James Quinn’s “Forth in the Peace of Christ We Go.”
1 Forth in the peace of Christ we go;
Christ to the world with joy we bring;
Christ in our minds, Christ on our lips,
Christ in our hearts, the world's true King.
2 King of our hearts, Christ makes us kings;
kingship with him his servants gain;
with Christ, the Servant-Lord of all,
Christ's world we serve to share Christ's reign.
3 Priests of the world, Christ sends us forth
the world of time to consecrate,
the world of sin by grace to heal,
Christ's world in Christ to re-create.
4 Christ's are our lips, his word we speak;
prophets are we whose deeds proclaim
Christ's truth in love, that we may be
Christ in the world, to spread Christ's name.
5 We are the church; Christ bids us show
that in his church all nations find
their hearth and home, where Christ restores
true peace, true love, to all mankind.
THE SENDING FORTH OF GOD’S PEOPLE
The Lord be with you.
And also with you
Let us praise the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Open this link in a new tab to hear John A. Behnke’s “Benediction.”
The Lord bless you
The Lord keep you
The Lord make his face to shine upon you
And be gracious
And be gracious
The Lord look upon you with favor
And give you peace.
The Lord bless you
The Lord keep you
The Lord make his face to shine upon you
And be gracious
And be gracious
The Lord look upon you with favor
And give you peace.
Amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen.
Eternal God, from whom all holy desires, all good purposes,
and all just works proceed: give to your servants that peace
which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to
obey your commandments, and that free from the fear of our
enemies we may pass our time in trust and quietness;
through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
Lighten our darkness, Lord, we pray: and in your great
mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night;
for the love of your only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Open this link in a new tab to hear Scot Crandal’s arrangement of James Quinn’s “Christ Be Beside Me” for SAB Choir and Assembly.
1 Christ be beside me, Christ be before me,
Christ be behind me, King of my heart.
Christ be within me, Christ be below me,
Christ be above me, never to part.
2 Christ on my right hand, Christ on my left hand,
Christ all around me, shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping, Christ in my sitting,
Christ in my rising, light of my life.
3 Christ be in all hearts thinking about me,
Christ be on all tongues telling of me.
Christ be the vision in eyes that see me,
In ears that hear me Christ ever be,
Christ ever be.
Silence is kept.
Those present may offer their own prayers and thanksgivings, either silently or aloud.
Gracious God,
you have given us much today;
grant us also a thankful spirit.
Into your hands we commend ourselves
and those we love.
Be with us still, and when we take our rest
renew us for the service of your Son Jesus Christ.
Amen.
In darkness and in light,
in trouble and in joy,
help us, heavenly Father,
to trust your love,
to serve your purpose,
and to praise your name,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Open this link in a new tab to hear James Quinn’s “Forth in the Peace of Christ We Go.”
1 Forth in the peace of Christ we go;
Christ to the world with joy we bring;
Christ in our minds, Christ on our lips,
Christ in our hearts, the world's true King.
2 King of our hearts, Christ makes us kings;
kingship with him his servants gain;
with Christ, the Servant-Lord of all,
Christ's world we serve to share Christ's reign.
3 Priests of the world, Christ sends us forth
the world of time to consecrate,
the world of sin by grace to heal,
Christ's world in Christ to re-create.
4 Christ's are our lips, his word we speak;
prophets are we whose deeds proclaim
Christ's truth in love, that we may be
Christ in the world, to spread Christ's name.
5 We are the church; Christ bids us show
that in his church all nations find
their hearth and home, where Christ restores
true peace, true love, to all mankind.
THE SENDING FORTH OF GOD’S PEOPLE
The Lord be with you.
And also with you
Let us praise the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Open this link in a new tab to hear John A. Behnke’s “Benediction.”
The Lord bless you
The Lord keep you
The Lord make his face to shine upon you
And be gracious
And be gracious
The Lord look upon you with favor
And give you peace.
The Lord bless you
The Lord keep you
The Lord make his face to shine upon you
And be gracious
And be gracious
The Lord look upon you with favor
And give you peace.
Amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen.
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