THIS WEEK'S CONFESSION OF SIN  

“We, poor sinners, confess ourselves before God Almighty, that we have gravely sinned by the transgression of His commandments; that we have done many things which we should have left undone, and we have left undone that which we should we should have done, through unbelief and distrust in God and weakness of love toward our fellow servants. God knows the guilt we have incurred, for which we are grieved. Be gracious to us, Lord. Be merciful to us, poor sinners. Amen.”                                                                                                 (adapted from Diebold Schwarz)

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”                                 Jeremiah 31:33-34