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Old Testament: Jeremiah 16:14-21
Epistle: I Peter 3:8-15
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11
On this 250th birthday of our nation, we remember that many followed our forefathers risking all to fight for temporal freedom. We follow Jesus for eternal freedom, purchased by the forgiveness of sins. In that freedom, Jesus called fishermen to be fishers of men (Luke 5:1–11). The net they would use is the Gospel. In worldly darkness the disciples could catch nothing. But in the light of Christ, whose Word was attached to the water, the boats were filled with fish. So it is that in Baptism you have been drawn into the boat of the Church. In the boat of the Church, we are called to be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks a reason for the hope that is in us (1 Peter 3:8–15).
Evangelical Lutheran Church