This is just a quick stop to post a beautiful water prayer that Lutheran World Relief mailed as a bookmark. Note the imagery from both the world of nature and the Scriptures. Then pray it – with thanks to LWR for their good sustainable development work around the world. I encourage you to support them. Water…a physical and spiritual blessing…so many ways.
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A Water Prayer
August 12, 2009Christ Is Risen – for You!
April 9, 2009
As a pastor I have found one of the great moments of ministry being Easter morning when, as worship begins, I am privileged to say, “Christ is risen!’ And worshipers respond, “He is risen indeed!” My heart thrills to those Easter words – and I hope the same happens for many.
Baptism is another form of that word – the very personal application: this is “for you.” Christ is risen – for you! This happens in a visible way when someone is baptized in an Easter (day or season) service. It happens in the dying to sin and rising to new life of worship’s confession and forgiveness. It also happens in the joyous Easter Sacrament of Holy Communion. All for you.
Our spiritual life as the baptized is anchored in Easter, Jesus Christ’s dying and rising, but it doesn’t end there. Our baptism is Christ-for-us and we receive a spiritual gift that is good for a lifetime and more.
I invite you to see my article in the April 2009 issue of The Lutheran, “Wanted: Sinners Dead And Alive.” Catch a glimpse of what baptism means not only for infants and children but also for adults. Baptismal spirituality is not just for one day but for our whole journey.
