Prayer: God, help us to hear you call our name and send us on your way. Amen. Reading: Psalm 2 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: In our scriptures this week, we hear God’s voice several times saying, “You are my Son.” On the mountain of Transfiguration, God adds, “In whom I am well pleased.” In this Psalm today, we are reminded that God had begotten him. When I was growing up, my dad would sometimes refer to me as his “Number One Son.” I always liked hearing that, even knowing I was his only son. I call my son, “Buddy” quite a bit and one day when I called him by his given name, we remarked with a smile, “You called me Aaron, dad!” He enjoyed hearing his name. Our names are important. We tell our summer staff all the time that they need to learn camper’s names quickly and call them by name often. We see this in our passages this week. God calls Jesus by name and tells him how he feels. We, too, need to listen for God’s voice, as God calls us by name to do God’s work. –Chad Hershberger
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