Katrina Prayer

After a great disaster: "Almighty God, who art a very present Help in time of trouble, let not the heart of Thy people fail when fear cometh, but do Thou sustain and comfort them until these calamaties be overpassed; and since Thou knowest the cause and reason why this grievous disaster of storm and flood hath fallen upon men, so do Thou forgive our sins, heal the hurt and wounded, console the bereaved and afflicted, protect the innocent and helpless, and deliver any who are still in peril; for the sake of Thy great mercy, in Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen."

Justice

"Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully." -- Proverbs 28:5 NIV

Just like a man

RK: "You're so ying to my yang."
M: "I'd like to be ying in your yang."

From God's Own Child

"God's own child, I gladly say it: I am baptized into Christ!
He, because I could not pay it, gave my full redemption price.
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"Though my flesh awaits its raising, still my soul continues praising:
I am baptized into Christ; I'm a child of paradise!"

Closing Hymn

"Faith shall cry as fails each sense -- Jesus is my confidence!"

Does it rhyme with my catechism?

"A Christian, you see, has to learn that the devil can quote the truth and extol God's Word just as well as pious Christians.  Whoever does not learn this is easily deceived and led astray, and then it is all over with him.  For the person who allows himself to be fooled by sheep's clothing, him the wolf tears to pieces.  That is why we need to say, I want gladly to hear God's Word and the truth; but before I rely too much on what I hear, I want to see whether it rhymes with my catechism and the preaching I have heard up till now.

"The person, therefore, who is on his toes and not naively gullible, but searches the Word, that person has no problem.  But the person who is lackadaisical about his catechism and the doctrine he has previously learned, with ears only for every whimsical fanatic, that person is done for."  -- Martin Luther, from his sermon on Matt 7:15-23, 1533 AD, p.347 of Complete Sermons of Martin Luther, vol. 6