Mark 9: Only By Prayer

Bells, the hymn "Jesus Has Come and Brings Pleasures Eternal," Confession with Absolution, the Introit, collect prayer, and Isaiah 55 reading leads into Dr. Zeile's meditation on the evil spirit who attacked a boy. The apostles were unable to cast it out and Christ explains that only by prayer (that is, relying on God to cast it out) is all we can do. In Christ that is enough! The hymn "Praise the One who Breaks the Darkness" completes this meditation.