Home Altar for August 9, 2026
Take It Home
Reflect: Jesus creates, renews, and strengthens your faith by sending people to proclaim His Word to you.
Share: Yours are the beautiful feet Christ sends to speak His Word into others’ sin, grief, suffering, and confusion.
Practice: Find one person this week and give them not just advice, but God’s Word to their specific situation.
Pray: Jesus, place Your Word in my ears, in my heart, on my lips and make my feet beautiful by carrying your Gospel.
Household Devotions
Week of Aug 10-15 • Preparing for Sunday, Aug 16
Monday: Reflect on the service, use Take It Home above
Tuesday: Read Isaiah 56:1–8. How does God welcoming the foreigner point to the Gospel going out to all nations?
Wednesday: Read Romans 11:1–32. How does Israel's stumbling result in the reconciliation of the world?
Thursday: Read Matthew 15:21–28. What does it mean that Jesus calls her faith great, and what does her faith look like?
Friday: Read Psalm 67. What does it mean that God judges the peoples with equity and guides the nations?
Saturday: Read Luther’s Small Catechism – The Fifth Commandment (catechism.cph.org)