Colossians 1:28-29 We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.

1. We are a people who idolize _______________ and despise _______________.

2. The call of Christ will include ____________.

3. All the ______________ we need is found in the ________________.

Scripture Readings
Genesis 18:20-33
Colossians 1:24-2:5
Luke 11:1-13

Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.

We are taught by these examples not to despair but to expect the best and to hope for certain and generous help and for an end of our ills, although while we are in them we see no end and God does not seem present, but He is hidden form the flesh. That is why we must learn and diligently use the Word and should know that these constant changes are commonly found in the lives of the saints and all believers, who desire to please God...Paul says about himself: "I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind" (Rom. 7:23). The law of the mind says: Hope, trust, doubt not, fear not; God lives, He reigns, the angels are watching over you. But I hear a different law in my members which says: All is lost. Your cause is spoiled. You are ruined. This is the law of the members: the flesh is unbelieving, insists on despairing, and cannot believe and promise itself that it will be freed from trouble.

Martin Luther, What Luther Says. pg. 13