Jesus protests against human customs being given the weight of divine law, while the essence of God’s law is ignored. True uncleanness comes not from external things, but from the intentions of the human heart. Last week Jesus told us “the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6:63). Now James says God has given us birth by the word of truth. We who were washed in the word when we were born in the font return to it every Sunday to ask God to create in us clean hearts. Our service will be live streamed from Atonement Lutheran Church starting at 10:30am and can be viewed by clicking on the image above. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1JcHzh1RlgsEf4_LfkkR_euVZv38Ykv/view?usp=sharing

Jesus protests against human customs being given the weight of divine law, while the essence of God’s law is ignored. True uncleanness comes not from external things, but from the intentions of the human heart. Last week Jesus told us “the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6:63). Now James says God has given us birth by the word of truth. We who were washed in the word when we were born in the font return to it every Sunday to ask God to create in us clean hearts. Our service will be live streamed from Atonement Lutheran Church starting at 10:30am and can be viewed by clicking on the image above. The bulletin for this service can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1JcHzh1RlgsEf4_LfkkR_euVZv38Ykv/view?usp=sharing