Walking Together in the Word
Devotional guide for the week of May 10-May 15, 2021
Welcome to Walking Together in the Word!
These devotional materials guide you through the Bible readings for the May 16, 2021 Sunday worship service. We pray they are a blessing to you and your family!
Why study God's Word and pray together?
- Bible study and prayer strengthens faith and brings you closer to God and to one another.
- Study of readings and hymns for the weekend prepares you for worship.
- The way parents express and model their faith helps shape young people’s faith lives.
- God's Word gives life!---new life now and eternal life with Jesus in heaven. (John 20:31)
About this Devotional Study Guide
- Five Days of devotional material. Catch up or review on the 6th day, worship on Sunday!
- Bible Readings are the LCMS 3-year lectionary readings for the upcoming Sunday.
- Talk about It and Dig Deeper guide discussion and meditation on the Bible passages.
- Kid Talk has questions and activities especially for kids and families.
- Prayer starters are given--add your own as well! Scroll to the bottom for the Lord's Prayer and Luther's Morning and Evening Prayers.

Opening and Prayer
Heavenly Father, bless our time together as we study Your Word. Amen.

Read John 17:11-19 from your Bible, or
Devotion on the Gospel
Talk about it
What did Jesus give to the disciples to equip them for their mission? What does He still give to us today? (see verse 14)
Why would their (and our) faithful use of the Word bring the hatred of the world? (see John 15:18-25)
Kid Talk
Read John 17:11-19.
The night before Jesus went to the cross to die for the sins of the world, He prayed for His disciples—and for us! Even as Jesus faced death, He was thinking about you and me. What great love He has for you! Jesus continues to pray to God the Father for us.
- How can you thank Him today for His love?
Listen and Sing: Thankful
Digging Deeper
- What thoughts come to mind as you read this passage?
- What is confusing or surprising about this passage?
- What does this passage teach you about God, His love for you, and His will for your life?
Then pray over the passage, talk about it with a friend or spiritual mentor, and explore further by reading the notes in a study Bible.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:11–12
Closing and Prayer
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all (2 Corinthians 13:14).
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Opening and Prayer
Heavenly Father, bless our time together as we study Your Word. Amen.

Read Acts 1:12-26 from your Bible, or
Talk about it
Why was 12 the appropriate number of apostles?
- What qualifications were considered to be essential to be nominated to fill Judas’ spot? Why do you think these were essential qualifications?
Listen: Take My Life
Digging Deeper
- What thoughts come to mind as you read this passage?
- What is confusing or surprising about this passage?
- What does this passage teach you about God, His love for you, and His will for your life?
Then pray over the passage, talk about it with a friend or spiritual mentor, and explore further by reading the notes in a study Bible.
Closing and Prayers
Pray the Lord's Prayer, Luther's Morning or Evening Prayers, and/or add your own prayers.

Opening and Prayer
Heavenly Father, bless our time together as we study Your Word. Amen.

Read 1 John 5:9-15 from your Bible, or
Devotion on the Epistle
Talk about it
John is clear earlier in this chapter that the Holy Spirit testifies that Jesus is the very Son of God who died for our sins. How is that testimony about Jesus a life-changing influence on our lives?
- Why did John write this epistle? What good did it do for his hearers—and for us today? (see verse 13)
Download a coloring page on the Epistle
Digging Deeper
- What thoughts come to mind as you read this passage?
- What is confusing or surprising about this passage?
- What does this passage teach you about God, His love for you, and His will for your life?
Then pray over the passage, talk about it with a friend or spiritual mentor, and explore further by reading the notes in a study Bible.
Closing and Prayer
Pray the Lord's Prayer, Luther's Morning or Evening Prayers, and/or add your own prayers.

Opening and Prayer
Heavenly Father, bless our time together as we study Your Word. Amen.

Read Psalm 1 from your Bible, or
Talk about it
What metaphor does the psalmist use to describe one who delights in and follows God’s law? (see verse 3)
- Compare this imagery with what Jesus says in John 15:1-17. What similarities do you see?
Listen to "Psalm 1"
Listen and Sing: Your Life Will Change
Digging Deeper
- What thoughts come to mind as you read this passage?
- What is confusing or surprising about this passage?
- What does this passage teach you about God, His love for you, and His will for your life?
Then pray over the passage, talk about it with a friend or spiritual mentor, and explore further by reading the notes in a study Bible.
Closing and Prayer
Pray the Lord's Prayer, Luther's Morning or Evening Prayers, and/or add your own prayers.
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Opening and Prayer
Heavenly Father, bless our time together as we study Your Word. Amen.

Son of God, Eternal Savior -- LSB 842
Son of God, eternal Savior,
Source of life and truth and grace,
Word made flesh, whose birth among us
Hallows all our human race,
You our Head, who, throned in glory,
For Your own will ever plead:
Fill us with Your love and pity,
Heal our wrongs, and help our need.
As You, Lord, have lived for others,
So may we for others live.
Freely have Your gifts been granted;
Freely may Your servants give.
Yours the gold and Yours the silver,
Yours the wealth of land and sea;
We but stewards of Your bounty
Held in solemn trust will be.
Come, O Christ, and reign among us,
King of love and Prince of Peace;
Hush the storm of strife and passion,
Bid its cruel discords cease.
By Your patient years of toiling,
By Your silent hours of pain,
Quench our fevered thirst of pleasure,
Stem our selfish greed of gain.
Son of God, eternal Savior,
Source of life and truth and grace,
Word made flesh, whose birth among us
Hallows all our human race:
By Your praying, by Your willing
That Your people should be one,
Grant, O grant our hope’s fruition:
Here on earth Your will be done.
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Talk about it
- How does this hymn declare the authority and divinity of Christ?
Listen and Sing!
Closing and Prayer
Pray the Lord's Prayer, Luther's Morning or Evening Prayers, and/or add your own prayers.
PRAYERS
The Lord's Prayer
Luther's Morning Prayer
I thank you my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.
Luther's Evening Prayer
Chapel of the Cross--Lutheran
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- Empowered by the cross of Christ
- People working together
- Opening the Word to all people
- Showing the love of Jesus
- Warm and supportive environment