His Time - Philadelphia Lutheran Ministries and "Wives and Husbands"

1. Philadelphia Lutheran Ministries

Rev. Robert Kieselowsky, Pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Springfield, PA, and Executive Director of Philadelphia Lutheran Ministries, talks about the mission and ministry of Philadelphia Lutheran Ministries. The first LCMS church in Philadelphia’s Center City will be opening soon, and domestic missionary Rev. Adam DeGroot is placed in northeast Philadelphia to serve the city’s needs. Learn more about PLM on their website phillyministries.org.

2. Daily Lectionary

Rev. Ed Borchardt from Trinity Lutheran Church in Evansville, Minnesota, studies Ephesians 5:15-33.

3. Morning Prayer Sermonette

Today’s sermonette is by Rev. Ed Borchardt from Trinity Lutheran Church in Evansville, Minnesota.

"The Bible is cradle wherein Christ is laid." - Martin Luther — “The Bible is cradle wherein Christ is laid.” – Martin Luther

Ephesians 5:15-33

¹⁵Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,¹⁶making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.¹⁷Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ¹⁸And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,²⁰giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives and Husbands

²²Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. ²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, ²⁶that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ²⁷so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.^[a] ²⁸In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰because we are members of his body. ³¹“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”³²This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. ³³However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.