overtime

Text: Philemon
Hymn: 404, Jesus, Once with Sinners Numbered
Kretzmann Commentary: Philemon
Bonus Bumper: 116 Clique, Take ‘Em Back

Paul appeals, rather than orders, Philemon to take Onesimus back as his brother in Christ. This gives Philemon a chance to truly forgive Onesimus for what he did. Very cool on Paul’s part, and an interesting way to act as a Christian when one is a superior.

404 is quite contemporary in age, only 12 years old, and yet the lyrics discuss baptism and Jesus’s duty on Earth. I especially like the last verse, where the cross is traced over us in baptism, counting us as righteous. Great gospel there.

After the Kretzmann commentary there is an overtime segment.

 
Text: © 1999 Stephen P. Starke; admin. Concordia Publishing House
Tune: © 1978 Augsburg Fortress
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Setting from Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission.
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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 from Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission.

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