Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song and Praise

In order to encourage and strengthen our confidence that the message of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection is true and that it can deliver what it promises, Jesus twice connected physical signs to his spoken words. He connected water to his promise of life and, right before he died, he took the simple elements of bread and wine and bound them to the promise of the forgiveness of our sin.

Like the blind man in today's story, Jesus heals our blindness and invites us to see things differently.  Then we hear the most sublime words imaginable, “Go, wash.” And, as the cool and refreshing waters of life wash over us – those baptismal waters in which we daily live – our eyes and our hearts are opened to behold the living Christ, standing as the chains of death and hell lay broken at his feet.  There is no other response than to raise our voice and cry out at last, “Lord! I believe!”

Like the blind man in today's story, Jesus heals our blindness and invites us to see things differently.  Then we hear the most sublime words imaginable, “Go, wash.” And, as the cool and refreshing waters of life wash over us – those baptismal waters in which we daily live – our eyes and our hearts are opened to behold the living Christ, standing as the chains of death and hell lay broken at his feet.  There is no other response than to raise our voice and cry out at last, “Lord! I believe!”

This is a special musical performance of Lonesome Valley by the Chancel Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of Lonesome Valley by the Chancel Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of Were You There by the Joyful Noise Children's Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of Were You There by the Joyful Noise Children's Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of He's My Best Friend by the Joyful Noise Children's Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

This is a special musical performance of He's My Best Friend by the Joyful Noise Children's Choir of Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, Michigan.

Matthew and Luke’s gospels tell us that the followers of Jesus asked him how to pray. In answer, Jesus taught them to pray and he did this by offering a prayer we call the Lord’s Prayer. This prayer not only teaches how to pray, it opens us to the things for which Christ would have us pray. The Lord’s Prayer is divided into sections. It begins with an introduction, followed by seven petitions, then ends with a doxology.