Prayer of the Day/Collect for Reformation Sunday Year A

Covenant-Making God: We praise and thank you for your superabundant grace, which names and claims us, and calls us into faithful living. We thank you for the reforms and reformers of your church in the past and today. May we continue to reform that which needs reforming, that your will may be done to set free all who are enslaved; through Jesus the Messiah; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit; one God, now and forever.

Reformation Sunday 2015

Tomorrow we Lutherans—and perhaps other denominations—celebrate

Reformation Sunday. Here is some food for thought from our hero, Martin Luther: On humour and joy: “If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven I don't want to go there.”

   On justification by grace through faith: “Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.”

   Perhaps it was Luther’s steadfast conviction regarding the latter quote that he could affirm the former one.