Grace, Mercy, and Truth--April 23, 2021

 

Old and young together, 

we praise your name, O God. 

Your name alone is exalted.

 

We may think our law

can never be changed, 

but Jesus broke the rules, 

except for the rule of love. 

 

When there seems no way

to reach him, love and faith

in Jesus will find an opening.

 

Your grace, mercy, and truth, 

be with us, God the Father

and Jesus Christ, the Son.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138

Dan. 6:1-15

2 John 1-13

Luke 5:12-26

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 148:12-13

Young men and women alike,
          old and young together!

Let them praise the name of the LORD,
          for his name alone is exalted;
          his glory is above earth and heaven.

 

Dan. 6:15

Then the conspirators came to the king and said to him, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no interdict or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”

 

2 John 3

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, in truth and love.

 

Luke 5:19-20

…but finding no way to bring [the paralyzed man] in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the middle of the crowd in front of Jesus.  When he saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.”