Martin Luther's Evening Prayer
"An Unchanging Faith for Changing Lives" describes the message of God for us in the turmoil of the 21st Century. This faith is taught at St. John's Lutheran Church of Taylor, Michigan, and other congregations of the Lutheran church-Missouri Synod. Rev. Dr. Richard Zeile, Pastor at St. John's, applies the Word of God to our everyday experiences. God's LAW always accuses, but God's GOSPEL shows where grace can be found, through Jesus Christ who died for our sin, but rose that we may have eternal life.
Martin Luther's Evening Prayer
Matthew 27 The Crown of Thorns
The Five Wounds of Christ traditionally are the two in the hands, the two in the feet, and the spear wound in the side. In the series at St. John's we choose to meditate on the Crown of Thorns (small wounds on the Head of Christ) and one meditation on the two feet. This is a Lenten Vespers (Evening Prayer) service which includes Psalm 80, Genesis 3 (the curse of the Fall into sin), the Nicene Creed, and Gerhard's famous hymn based on a poem of St. Bernard, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."