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 from Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission.
We All Believe in One True God
- We all believe in one true God,
Who created earth and heaven,
The Father, who to us in love
Has the right of children given.
He in soul and body feeds us;
All we need His hand provides us;
Through all snares and perils leads us,
Watching that no harm betide us.
He cares for us by day and night,
All things are governed by His might. - We all believe in Jesus Christ,
His own Son, our Lord, possessing
An equal Godhead, throne, and might,
Source of every grace and blessing.
Born of Mary, virgin mother,
By the power of the Spirit,
Word made flesh, our elder brother,
That the lost might life inherit.
Was crucified for all our sin
And raised by God to life again. - We all confess the Holy Ghost,
Who, in highest heaven dwelling
With God the Father and the Son,
Comforts us beyond all telling;
Who the Church, His own creation,
Keeps in unity of spirit.
Here forgiveness and salvation
Daily come through Jesus’ merit.
All flesh shall rise, and we shall be
In bliss with God eternally.
Amen, amen.
TURRIE on 
Dan
