His Time - Lutheran Senior Services, Psalm 11, Historically Speaking, "Do Not Love the World"

1. Lutheran Senior Services

Annmarie Wallis and Tom Zuber, Executive Chef at Laclede Groves, from Lutheran Senior Services share a Turkey Tetrazzini recipe and some great cutting lessons to get the most fun out of your cooking. See the cutting lessons on the Facebook video below, and find the recipe on the LSS Blog: lssliving.org/blog/2016/12/07/laclede-groves-executive-chef-shares-turkey-tetrazzini-recipe.

Executive Chef Tom Zuber graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1993 before then attending the Culinary School at Kendall College in Chicago. After culinary school, he worked for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in St. Louis, the Ritz-Carlton, San Juan, and the Chase Park Plaza. In 2009, he became a Chef Instructor at L’Ecole Culinaire and in 2015 he joined Lutheran Senior Services as the Executive Chef at Laclede Groves.

Lutheran Senior Services is a faith-based, mission-driven not-for-profit network that specializes in enhancing life for seniors, ages 62-plus. With 21 locations in Missouri and Illinois, LSS offers quality choices and exceptional support for retirement living. Through affordable housing locations, home and community based services, and senior living communities, they provide a person-centered approach to a comprehensive continuum of life choices. Building upon a tradition of excellence for more than 155 years, Lutheran Senior Services is fulfilling its Christian mission of Older Adults Living Life to the Fullest. Find LSS on Facebook!

2. Meditation on the Day’s Psalm

Rev. Jonathan Fisk gives a meditation on the Psalm of the Day, Psalm 11.

Psalm 11: The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

11 In the Lord I take refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
    “Flee like a bird to your mountain,
²for behold, the wicked bend the bow;
    they have fitted their arrow to the string
    to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
³if the foundations are destroyed,
    what can the righteous do?”^[a]

⁴The Lord is in his holy temple;
    the Lord‘s throne is in heaven;
    his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
⁵The Lord tests the righteous,
    but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
⁶Let him rain coals on the wicked;
    fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
⁷For the Lord is righteous;
he loves righteous deeds;
    the upright shall behold his face.

Footnotes:

Psalm 11:3 Or for the foundations will be destroyed; what has the righteous done?

3. Historically Speaking

Hosted by the Concordia Historical Institute.

Learn more at ConcordiaHistoricalInstitute.org.

4. Daily Lectionary

Rev. Kevin Thomson from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Des Peres, Missouri, studies 1 John 2:15-29.

5. Morning Prayer Sermonette

Today’s sermonette is given by Rev. Kevin Thomson from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Des Peres, Missouri.

1 John 2:15-29

Do Not Love the World

¹⁵Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life^[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Warning Concerning Antichrists

¹⁸Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. ²⁰But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.^[b] ²¹I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. ²²Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. ²³No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵And this is the promise that he made to us^[c]—eternal life.

²⁶I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.²⁷But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Children of God

²⁸And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. ²⁹If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.