Diet of Worms

Psalm 90 A prayer of Moses the man of God. 1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. 2 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 3 You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” 4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. 5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: 6 In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. 7 We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. 10 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. 11 If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due. 12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 13 Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. 14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. 16 May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. 17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.

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On these quiet lonely days I am ready You to praise. God, please hear me when I speak For my soul now You does seek! You, who all the stars well guides And the course of years decides, Never change: Your work You do Always hidden from our view. This most frigid winter air Strongly to our hearts declares: “Summer far away has flown. It comes from the Lord alone!” Frost, like ashes, is outpoured Down from the hand of the Lord. Who can freezing winds withstand From the coldest arctic lands? Just like wool He spreads the snow, \ Cov’ring land and sea below. But when God’s warm breeze draws near, It soon melts and disappears. Nature’s ruler, with these signs You show us the passing times! Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Come and go at Your bidding. My soul just as willingly Follows what Your Word tells me! Jesus, may Your love too steer All my actions in this year! Outside there’s an icy chill, But my heart is burning still. Savior, Your light to me give And for You I’ll glow and live! Joachim Neander translated by aaron jensen Joachim Neander (1650-1680) was a Reformed teacher and hymnist. He enjoyed wandering through the countryside near Duesseldorf, where he served as principal. Eventually in his honor this area was named Neanderthal, which means “Neander Valley,” and so indirectly he lent his name to the fossil found there in 1856. The most popular of his hymns is “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” (CW234). This winter hymn, set to the melody “Gott Sei Dank Durch All Welt” (CW226), is also still sung today by the Amish to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”

1) Nothing lies on the person of the preacher; if God’s Word is only taught purely, then it is taught correctly (c. 4:2; 1 Ti. 1:3; 2 Ti. 1:13). -Christoph starke, Commentary on 1 Corinthians 15, translated by Benjamin Foxen

Note I. Dividing theology into true and false is only nominal and entirely and purely equivocal. For false theology, which is also called subject to opinion,“ shares nothing but the name "theology" and is only wrongly so called, since, on the basis of 1 Ti 4:2 and Tts 1:10 it Should rather be called idle talk and lies and is no more theology than a picture of a horse is a horse. Note II. In Scripture, false theology is called doctrine of devils, 1 Ti 4:1, and devilish wisdom, Ja 3:15, because it has the devil, the father of falsehood, Jn 8:44, as source, and it is nothing else than a false opinion and contrary to the heavenly truth about God and His will and works. —Johann Quenstedt

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“And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.” | Genesis 5:3 “The first man was of the earth, made of dust… [and] we have borne the image of the man of dust” | I Corinthians 15:47, 49

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