Church Year: Pentecost 10:
Date: August 20, 2017
Theme: God’s Thoughts, Not Our Thoughts
– Isaiah 55:6-11
– Pastor: John Hein
The Order of Worship: Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 530 : Thy Ways, O Lord, with Wise Design 
TLH 527 : Lord, it Belongs not to my Care
TLH 529 : I Leave all Things to God's Direction
TLH 47 : Savior Again to Thy Dear Name
Theme: God’s Thoughts, Not Our Thoughts
Isaiah 55:6-11 (Listen)
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. (ESV)