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Psalm 51:1-10 (NRSV)

 

 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions.  2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.  3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.  4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.  5 Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.  6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.  7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.  9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.  10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

 

Devotion

 

When I was in college, I became aware that I was not as good as I wanted to be. I became aware of my sinfulness. I came to believe that I would need the help of a power greater than myself, if I was to become the person I wanted to be. I set out in search of a living God, a God not confined to stories of the past or the rituals of church. By God’s grace, an active relationship to that God was begun and slowly, over time, I came to know a God who creates clean spirits, renews spirits, and refuses to cast us away. The psalmist gives me, gives us, the words to express the longing for renewal and new life and in doing so, reminds us of the God who indeed renews and gives new life.

Prayer

Dear God, in moments of struggle, self-doubt, self-reproach, or despair, remind us of the power of your cleansing grace and the promise that you will never leave us, will never leave us alone and abandoned. Amen.

Kurt Keljo ’81 M.Div.Retired, Reynoldsburg, Ohio

 

 

 

TOP 3 THINGS TO KNOW FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2025

 

  • Picnic this Sunday after church, at Meadowood Park, Pavilion 1. There is a sign up at church, at this point please notify Jan Smith about attendance. Fellowship and fun on a beautiful weather week.

 

  • Fall is here, and programming is ramping back up: Wednesday Bible study at 7, tonight, Coffee and Conversation Sunday morning at 10 a.m., Faith Formation Sunday night at 7 studying the book by Max Lucado "Anxious for Nothing."

 

  • Spiritually tired? Come and refresh on a Via de Cristo weekend! The Hermerdings, Jamie Shake, Pr Doug, and Sara Curry from Faith are serving in a Co Ed weekend November 13-16! Let one of us know if feeling called!! 

 

 

God be with you until we meet again!

 

+Pastor Doug