Text: Jonah 2
Hymn: 766, Our Father, Who from Heaven Above
Kretzmann Commentary: Jonah
Bonus Bumper: Jonah and the Whale
I find it slightly humorous that Jonah considers himself saved in Chapter 2, while he is still in the belly of the fish, and not when his feet are again on terra firma. Jonah 2 then is a wonderful prayer of thanksgiving. Salvation belongs to the Lord.
766 is Martin Luther’s catechism hymn for the Lord’s Prayer. Nine verses sounds like a lot, but Cantor Beethe keeps it from dragging. Check out the “text painting” — how he plays — on verse 7, emphasizing the mood of the text.
Text (sts. 2-5, 7): © 1980 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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Text: Amos 9
Hymn: 954, We All Believe in One True God
Kretzmann Commentary: Amos and Obadiah
Bonus Bumper: Mozart – Requiem, “Dies Irae”
This podcast not only contains the episode from Pirate Christian Radio and the Kretzmann commentary, but there is also an “Overtime” with submissions from listeners celebrating my birthday and podcast #75.
Amos 8 would have been a good chapter to read also:
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the LORD.”
Amos 9, though, contains both Law and Gospel. The booth/shelter of David, God’s people will be repaired and raised up, never to be uprooted again.
The hymn for today is Martin Luther’s catechism hymn for the Apostles’ Creed and definitely worth your time to replay and commit to memory. There are not many hymns that teach the faith as much as Luther’s catechism hymns and perhaps the Te Deum laudamus.
Setting: © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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Text: Joel 2
Hymn: 536, One Thing’s Needful
Kretzmann Commentary: Joel
Bonus Bumper: Mendelsohnn – Elijah, “Ye People, Rend Your Hearts”
Nobody reads Joel, right? Yet there in Joel 2 we see several familiar themes. Rend your hearts and not your garments. The Lord God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. Finally the passage cited in Acts that pertains to Pentecost.
Michele Bunyon lent her voice again, this time on “One Thing’s Needful.” The first part of each stanza is in 4/4 time, while the backside is in 3/4 and a little faster.
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Text: Hosea 11
Hymn: 533, Jesus Has Come and Brings Pleasure
Kretzmann Commentary: Hosea
Bonus Bumper: Blessed Be the Tie that Binds
Hymn 533 was featured Pr. Tom Baker on his show, Law and Gospel, on June 28 (MP3). It’s another great hymn that confesses and celebrates so many things about the Christ.
The title in the LSB is a bit misleading without the next word, eternal. He brings pleasure eternal; he doesn’t bring just pleasure. 
Hosea 11 is messianic: the “out of egypt” verse two is cited in Matthew 2:15. We also see that God is the faithful one and we are the ones who reject him. He threatens not to raise us, but he has compassion for us. It will be because of the Son that God will not return for us in wrath.
Text and setting: © 1982 Concordia Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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