Articles, sermons and news feed for Your Church or Ministry en-us https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/summaries.html https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/peace/a783.html?app=1 It is comforting to hear Jesus tell us that his Father is also our Father, for as Jesus returns to him, we too, will one day ascend to our God in heaven. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {09343E31-27EF-597F-BB00-33D97FBDFE64} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/my-father-and-your-father/a780.html?app=1 It is comforting to hear Jesus tell us that his Father is also our Father, for as Jesus returns to him, we too, will one day ascend to our God in heaven. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {E7CFC9F7-41EC-92E2-8253-7032D2A63364} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/on-the-third-day/a777.html?app=1 Christ lay in the tomb for a part of three days, rising on the third, but what we should note is not so much the number but the fact that he truly died. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {229DDF45-6CBB-8AFD-2F9B-0D32AC28D86E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/mercy-not-merit/a774.html?app=1 Jesus calls us his brothers, not because of anything we have done to merit this inclusion in his family, but because we believe on him for salvation. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {1196E5CD-EEDE-9FA2-0ACC-B65332022AC6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/freedom-through-word-and-sacraments/a771.html?app=1 God's Word and works in the Sacraments are not idle, but instead set people free from sin, death, the devil, and every sort of fear. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {6D21111F-5F77-A0CA-28EA-AC31BA2A0D93} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-word-of-salvation/a768.html?app=1 You may be a birthright Jew, or a birthright Quaker, but without being born again, a salvation through the Word of Christ, there can be no salvation. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {B7691B74-F9BB-9D30-7B30-79349A0A0461} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/bread-for-your-neighbor/a766.html?app=1 When we receive Holy Communion, we should be careful to increase love, to find our neighbor who is in need and reach out to him in Christ's name. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {D0125850-A034-0A67-4A66-7C3DB54FEB43} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/enduring-witness/a761.html?app=1 If you would be a Christian, then you must not be terribly alarmed or impatient at the the torments of the world and of the devil. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {26F849EB-E80F-7200-D926-03D6179913E9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-testimony/a760.html?app=1 We have the clear Word of God as testimony for us who believe, that Christ gave himself as a grace to be received in the bread and wine of his table. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {BD3C7D98-8E83-AD52-48FB-C25438DFB7E1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-fresh-lump/a757.html?app=1 May you be a fresh lump with whom Christ Jesus being worked in, that the grace and power of the Spirit may continue to work out your salvation. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {AACD002C-C1EF-D7DB-BF4F-18DA683D698A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/drinking-the-word/a754.html?app=1 The one who desires Holy Communion should receive all of it, not the bread alone but the cup of the New Covenant in Christ's blood as well. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {06A3E522-8883-489B-54E5-2E2C677876AE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/expatriates/a751.html?app=1 "The baptized Christian is born a citizen of heaven through baptism. We should be mindful of this fact and walk here as if native there." Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {12AACDD5-830A-88D1-5F6D-523815CC3D04} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/call-on-him/a748.html?app=1 We may know the Lord's presence everywhere through the Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the blessed Sacraments. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {2B361239-18E6-91D7-7E45-146A3F692F33} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/believing-the-unbelievable/a745.html?app=1 May you have faith in God, believing the unbelievable, that sin and death are overcome for you, not because you earned it, but for Christ's sake. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {71E68AF0-7740-401F-2CD1-339BBD8FD682} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/taken-up/a739.html?app=1 We aim to believe in what is written in the words of Scripture, so that we may have a faith like Enoch, faith in the God who takes up his people to himself. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {4A8FF29A-BF8D-2C45-786A-ECFEF76DAAD0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-rock/a738.html?app=1 We are left to believe the Word, the word of Christ, and his works that follow after us. not in our own works, but by faith in the word of the cross. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {89E64E3E-9A87-6657-CB1E-CDF2A2BD6B4C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-boast/a733.html?app=1 The Christian life is not a matter of outward appearance but of living by the Word and through faith in and under the name of Christ Jesus, our Lord. Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {D3C2F08A-49F0-A6B7-A04A-834081B66AB7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faithful-dependence/a2435.html?app=1 Faith must be of a character that excludes all works, personal devotion, piety, or holiness as the reason for salvation, and trusts in Christ alone — that through his death, resurrection, and ascension we are saved from sin and death. Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {DAFC7470-30C0-9488-5D12-4541A19A5A72} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/just-condemnation/a730.html?app=1 God demands admission or confession of sin, and that people everywhere repent of their sins, turning away from self to God through his Savior. Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {D9C3FE3C-A3A6-E169-0A0A-3E7B7AFFC7CC} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/hold-fast/a727.html?app=1 When anxiety, distress, or other trials come your way, hold fast to the Word, keep the faith, you will see Christ clearly there, and he will again bring you joy. Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {8042C459-B310-9EFA-C9D7-7FE555859627} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/confess-and-believe/a724.html?app=1 We confess that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {C1D25112-CA8E-152C-9828-FC59E6A4C2FC} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/good-for-the-soul/a721.html?app=1 The old saying that confession is good for the soul is not sufficiently correct; it is the absolute forgiveness of sins that is good for the souls of sinners. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {23DAA254-0C06-7270-5965-2E0A3CADB357} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/consider-him/a717.html?app=1 One finds in Jesus strength and comfort against all vice and bad habits, as true Christians incorporate the life and name of Christ into their own lives. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {0B40ACAE-614E-B570-242F-8C5F821DD0D8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faith-over-feelings/a714.html?app=1 Do not try to work yourself up to a feeling of being forgiven and loved by God, but ask him for the faith to know Christ crucified, and the assurance of salvation. Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {8C490389-845F-34F1-5412-7200DC9813D0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/for-you/a711.html?app=1 No one but Christ Jesus has suffered for the sins of others, yet his passion, his suffering and death, avail for the salvation of every sinner who believes on him. Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {250BF43F-3DBC-A11E-3833-506B2E7785E1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-light-of-men/a708.html?app=1 Whoever disregards the life of Christ on earth, wishing to find eternal life in some other way than he accomplished for us, fails to find salvation. Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {D4451E83-CF4E-71F9-82B2-15808060124C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-thorn-in-the-flesh/a705.html?app=1 In order to keep our focus on God, instead of on self, we are sometimes given a gift: an affliction of the flesh that makes us rely upon God. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {2B960ECD-FFE0-CE9B-2E25-3ED3AE8BD72A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/you-crucified-him/a702.html?app=1 It is the sin of all who have ever lived — including you and me — that sent Christ Jesus to the cross to pay the ransom for of a whole world of sinners. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {82B3DC27-C92B-4C8E-D699-1571928D35EF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/holding-faith/a699.html?app=1 Life is sometimes difficult, so we must hold firmly in faith to the word and promises of God in Jesus Christ found in the Scriptures, The Holy Bible. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {D1ECC9D4-4AC9-44C5-4F0E-B094DA566DEC} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-only-hope/a696.html?app=1 This is our hope — our only hope: Christ Jesus — that we might believe in him, and having such faith, come to see him on that great and glorious Day. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {64964F83-5E12-ED6F-08A1-2C858CE52CBB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/imitators-of-god/a693.html?app=1 Like children imitating their parents, we should imitate God, especially in doing good things for our neighbors so that the Father is glorified in us. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {24F29C9B-6E71-79F3-1C6B-70DF88A0A8CC} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/all-things/a690.html?app=1 We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things, trusting him through his Word, more than feelings, works, or even his good gifts. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {6A71463D-8ABE-E7AB-F95B-3D57198B363D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/another-son/a686.html?app=1 God will keep his promise that the seed of the woman will bruise the head of the serpent, establishing Seth in that line that would herald the Savior. Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {E18C3B80-E14F-F0DA-8C8E-01EADB337831} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/who-do-you-trust/a682.html?app=1 We are to turn the other cheek, trusting in God above all things — even government, even ourselves — that he will avenge wrongdoing. Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {EC6706DE-23B4-28AC-DD94-2FC904B29E2E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/east-of-eden/a679.html?app=1 Lack of faith is what drives us East of Eden, away from the presence of God, the communion of saints, the church, Christ's kingdom, and eternal life. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {6DB969CC-9CE2-07AE-58EC-2D168433D694} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/uncovenanted-mercy/a677.html?app=1 God may show mercy even to the unjust so that they may have time to repent and know the full and certain assurance of his love and care. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {ACDE9A31-BEEB-4114-7851-F26842FC07B0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/unthwarted/a672.html?app=1 Nothing would thwart God's plan, not even Adam's and Eve's disobedience — our our own. He has promised a Savior, and delivered on his promise. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {9D930DE4-015F-AB0D-AF8C-82B1C0A6A240} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-proper-response/a670.html?app=1 Be careful how you respond to God when he confronts you with your sins, especially when it involves your neighbor, or family, your closest neighbors. Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 {0AA30CD1-0853-5756-C707-21DE50D45894} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-blessed-dead/a667.html?app=1 God has no desire to forget us and so, those who love the Lord will live on in his memory and in another, blessed life so that we may remain in his love. Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {908BA7E9-F6E3-CEAF-2956-1B6C4E9CEB60} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-acceptable-time/a664.html?app=1 Whatever day it is, the promise of the gospel abounds for you, making it the acceptable day for your salvation. Believe! and it will be a brand new day. Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {F7B08617-E08F-B17A-D61B-84F25A40AC9D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-office-of-disgrace/a660.html?app=1 The office of the ministry will always be disgraced by some, as Christ Jesus himself was dishonored, simply because his Word is proclaimed as truth. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {F56EB82F-3B83-C89B-B68F-F285D2D30415} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-pious-pastor/a657.html?app=1 The preacher must not present an obstacle to the Word that results from his life, and especially from his doctrine, so they refuse to believe because of him. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {F585B26F-68CB-3609-E7AC-01EF3A4BCF2C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/all-the-more-reason/a654.html?app=1 We are weak in the flesh, yes, but this is all the more reason to strive for purity and to live in holiness since Christ Jesus has made us holy. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {E7F023EB-397B-8C35-A5A9-526596F31BAD} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-strong-man/a651.html?app=1 Jesus Christ is the "strong man" who uses his gospel word to overpower the dumb, deaf, blind, and demon-possessed, converting where he wills. Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {13FA6BDF-439F-9F48-AA95-30C7687DA829} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/suffering-fools/a647.html?app=1 There have been and will always be those who would take advantage of your liberty in Christ, insisting you must do this and that to be saved. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {91E12BA9-7881-D428-B706-6AF57860B377} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-cleansed-conscience/a646.html?app=1 One needs more than purification of the body in order to be at peace with God. The conscience must be cleansed by faith in the shed blood of Jesus. Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {DBA2AA6E-AF3B-C706-C24B-EFC6CA0C4C98} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/dont-neglect-it/a641.html?app=1 Read the Bible on your own, for sure. But get yourself to church to hear the Word read and proclaimed among God's community. He speaks there. Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {05261CF7-03F9-81E5-6C2B-C0E0CA40299F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/more-and-more/a638.html?app=1 There should be a grateful and increasing degree of perfection in the doctrines we have received, perceiving our errors and striving to mend our ways. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {24948AB0-93AC-BDC1-E6E5-14AAF13EA249} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-beginning-of-salvation/a633.html?app=1 Everyone — even old Noah, your pastor, and your child — is a sinner who can do nothing without God's assistance. Admit it, and salvation begins. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {E1003BD7-EF24-A8E1-0BC1-A850123A6AF6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-unbelieving-heart/a631.html?app=1 The wastelands of unclean spirits are nothing more than unbelieving hearts, Evil is anxious to return home, so keep believing and exercising your faith. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {AD268ABB-25C6-00EF-A0A0-9A2FEB1D7D71} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/crumbs-of-faith/a628.html?app=1 The law condemns but the gospel takes away all despair, so that, even if one has only some crumbs of faith, she may believe and be a child of God. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {1A86FCF4-55C7-2247-E999-388EEF306E9C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/gods-bare-word/a625.html?app=1 The bare Word of God is what must make the difference for us — not disappointment or glee or any other feeling. Cling to the Word alone! Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {4D81685E-908C-CD46-4A3B-994DD4CF9EB8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-same-submission/a622.html?app=1 All works of love, then, must be directed, as commanded, to our needy neighbors. In these lowly ones we are to find, love, serve, and honor God. Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {4808B3E7-B172-D091-0C96-35BBA0AA059A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-promise/a619.html?app=1 Be careful that you are not tempted to believe twisted Scriptures, especially when it concerns false promises for your soul. Christ alone is our Promise. Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {F0F744D5-FAFF-6F8F-195F-189E5B1C8040} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/spiritual-sustenance/a615.html?app=1 We do not live by the nourishment of the body alone. We also need spiritual sustenance, or as Jesus says, "that word that proceeds from the mouth of God" Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {3774FE31-CC0A-80FE-C70D-E1C2E98FB683} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/ask/a612.html?app=1 What do you want Jesus to do for you? Heal some spiritual blindness? Increase your faith? Hear the gospel and receive God's grace? Ask and you shall receive. Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {1C9A6BF4-F37F-814D-4296-A40019D77E66} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-patient-lent/a609.html?app=1 Jesus was able to be patient with his accusers and attackers because he did not entrust himself to their judgment but to him who judges justly. Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {D57E7F70-2DAC-CC57-4253-F33AC56A9389} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/fasting/a606.html?app=1 We should cheerfully suffer want and temptation for the service of God and the good of our neighbor, like Christ did for us. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {7BAE5637-28A2-079D-95FD-97E9582267AE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-mystery-revealed/a603.html?app=1 "Reason, flesh and blood, cannot understand, nor grasp that the Scriptures should say how the Son of man must be crucified...to suffer for us." Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {BB83A134-922B-FF9D-FF41-65D248CE2B94} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/owe-your-neighbor/a600.html?app=1 We are to owe no person anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law and commandments. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {D6D36DA4-67FA-22BC-C46F-E28CC78446D0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-love-of-neighbor/a597.html?app=1 If you do not love your neighbor, your conscience will condemn you. Without trust in a forgiving Father, you will be overwhelmed with guilt. Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {1C0183D0-0E68-19B2-457D-A5E19C1E074B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/clang/a593.html?app=1 The gifts of God are to be used in service of neighbor so that God receives the glory for our actions. This is accomplished when we serve with love. Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {2DD3CF3B-8CC9-8B00-04F0-496742A955A6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/entrusting/a590.html?app=1 You just can't win sometimes. Trying to defend yourself does not work; you just get judged all the more. All you can do is entrust yourself to God. Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {C0744BD6-2E50-896B-0EA2-E9D62EC942CE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-purge/a587.html?app=1 We are forgiven only if we continue in faith and are occupied with purging out the impurity that remains in us. Life is daily repentance and forgiveness: purging. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {548871E4-3E37-8F37-BAD8-BB01E638F76B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/you-must/a584.html?app=1 Are you gracious or harsh and demanding of others? We must show mercy and grace to our neighbor, as we have been shown these by Christ. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {54D283A1-5C8D-F671-52F0-E2CD41C5E9D6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-faith-of-another/a581.html?app=1 God can bring life and healing to the lives of others through your faith, as seen in biblical examples like the centurion who had faith for another. Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {4613DFFF-52B6-F1C3-0713-CF8EA30927A8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/noticing-the-heart-of-jesus/a578.html?app=1 Jesus came to earth to do his Father's will, to die for a world's sin. It was his passion, his Plan A; there was no Plan B. Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {404CDBEA-A615-A7B0-07DB-2693CF63CB37} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/whatever/a575.html?app=1 All works are good, so long as they are done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for his glory, as directed by him rather than by one's own ability. Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {FD06AB28-F5B9-7DB0-68A1-53624F134BA3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-mystery/a572.html?app=1 Don't you love a good mystery, one told well and ends well? That is what Jesus came to proclaim, a mystery for the ages revealed for you. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {8DDB1927-EC3E-AEF0-E8C5-A20E7C92AAA8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/equality-of-believers/a569.html?app=1 Peter's and Luther's doctrine of the priesthood of believers is central to Paul's teaching on honoring weaker members of the body of Christ. Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {40AAAF95-A06F-C2BE-67FE-9ED3EE3C669A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/no-doubt/a565.html?app=1 The gospel leaves us no room to doubt the Lord's favor, for the first and the last to believe his word will receive his eternal and generous salvation. Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {5988847C-D66D-C7B5-265F-069A1588053E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-greatest/a562.html?app=1 When there is but infinite day, we will require faith no more, nor hope. Love is the permanent thing, and therefore, the greatest of the three that now abide. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {B6F5BEF5-4D45-C7CA-7885-48CCFAB8E636} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/true-faith/a558.html?app=1 Come to Christ because you are a sinner, not because you think he must have someone as great and pious as you. Come with faith in him, not in yourself. Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {28AC0F6B-E0A3-BDEA-A38E-A43C759E5BB8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/run-to-win/a555.html?app=1 A Christian does not live life aimlessly. This life is a race to the prize, eternal life in Jesus Christ, and so, must be run with passion and purpose. Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {2DAA2CE0-6793-48A6-1883-4371AEF752F7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/look-there/a551.html?app=1 Seek! Search! Look everywhere else. But you will never find Christ Jesus anywhere else but in the holy Scripture. The Spirit will reveal himself there. Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {AF2F219C-ACEF-10A9-6A20-7CCEAC82CBED} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/freely-given-gifts/a548.html?app=1 Take the Word of God "as it stands," as it is written, and be transformed by the Holy Spirit who works through that very Word in all his people. Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {DEA84889-F150-15BB-1C7C-46E8C184447D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/proud-of-the-gospel/a544.html?app=1 A Christian glories in the things of which other men are ashamed — in the cross and in his sufferings. For the world will not long endure the Word. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {7ECE58AE-2EE7-9DEC-7EA5-C46381F1AF1E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/favor-the-lowly/a539.html?app=1 As much as you are able, live in peace with all; spend time with those of humble circumstance. Be a blessing to your neighbor. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {7015085E-EEEF-2084-A477-5466E841FF1D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-marriage-will/a536.html?app=1 Marriage, because it is God's institution, will be a difficult work, as the flesh will resist and rebel, as it always does against doing God's will. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {44DB05AA-2C91-5375-2048-39C1E57E3106} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/love-your-neighbor/a531.html?app=1 Love desires the best for its neighbor, even when one's neighbor does not desire the best for you, so one must pray for them even when they are not neighborly. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {BF6830D2-5CF1-433B-9D7C-01A7C802DDCB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/wheat-and-weeds/a526.html?app=1 Jesus allowed for believers and unbelievers alike in the church, so that both might be spared, believers from violent uprooting, and unbelievers an opportunity to believe. Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {9DABA5E2-A0E2-636B-A7C4-695C72A54BEE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/many-functions/a522.html?app=1 Each Christian has been given a calling, and with that calling a particular gift or gifts to fulfill the calling. These do not make her better or happier than another. Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {8C26E459-AAE1-1FB4-BAB6-87884531B842} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/failure/a519.html?app=1 God permits us to fail in order to make us seek him in his Word. Do not despair when things do not go your way. God is calling you. Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {93B1B6A3-AADA-DA34-4383-A6E1F66B8F41} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/prophecy/a515.html?app=1 Paul does not put much emphasis on foretelling the future, but on the explanation of the Scriptures, so that there may be faith in the gospel. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {95071084-CD74-D407-5E3D-A60807BD9833} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/content-with-the-gospel/a512.html?app=1 May we be content with the gospel, with what is written, for it contains all that God wants us to know about himself, all that we need to know. Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {CF8890DF-40DE-0BBA-2B48-2D2119B38BB4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/love-is-not-vengeful/a508.html?app=1 Love is virtue pure and precious. It neither utters, nor thinks any evil of its neighbor. It rather covers sin; not one sin, nor two, but a “multitude of sins.” Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {CBC79C05-035C-13A7-B9AE-6FBDF2160975} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/worship-for-christs-sake/a502.html?app=1 Our worship and good works are to be done for Christ's sake, not because we think that we earn salvation through our deeds or piety. Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {03F0555E-C6EA-2E89-46BF-D2C61F376AD9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/dealing-with-trouble/a500.html?app=1 Good and bad happens to bad and so-called good people alike. The difference is how one responds, and why, and from where their peace comes. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {C49F8A22-776F-56A2-B9A2-C3C22EBFA3A1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/christ-alone/a1598.html?app=1 If salvation in Christ's light is to be brought about, all other righteousness in ourselves, sought outside of Christ with works, must be rejected. Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {3F9ECBBE-D142-228F-DB86-26485D86B526} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/transformed-thought/a1597.html?app=1 Christians are not to be ruled by their feelings or reasoning, for these are matters of their will. But God's will revealed through his Word transforms them. Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {20171EE8-B9EC-E3E5-A6FD-008EA2CF5B78} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/appearances/a490.html?app=1 Simeon was not impressed by appearances and so, could bless Christ Jesus. If appearances are our motivation, we will not bless Jesus. Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {46AA666B-F4C8-D04B-3AF5-846AAF570D8F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/acceptable-sacrifice/a487.html?app=1 Christians are priests, each and every one of them, and as priests, are to offer acceptable sacrifices to God. That sacrifice is self for the honor God. Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {97A1A0F8-0373-40C4-D385-9EEAD1C7698D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faith-in-his-word/a483.html?app=1 We must have faith in the Word, not in what our senses tell us. Feelings are secondary (at least) and are to be subordinated to "what is written." Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {0A1A4024-953F-38C1-74B0-5CC5E6F6AFF7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/bless/a481.html?app=1 Christians should not curse—in the sense of wishing evil in a person's life. However, Christians are to censure and reprove evil in the hope of good. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {B7D75FEE-1F93-5A62-B263-70740D70F211} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/kept-in-humble-faith/a478.html?app=1 God allows suffering to guard against presumption, as example to others to repent, and as preparation for finding Christ, and keeping him. Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {99385E40-5F8D-1161-3A0C-56912CBE5548} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/living-sacrifice/a474.html?app=1 The sacrifices of the Old Testament are fulfilled in the one sacrifice of Christ Jesus so that we may offering the living sacrifice of faith in everyday life. Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {882CD3A8-6F96-6B4F-5A4E-6A9BAA19E49F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/indebted-to-love/a470.html?app=1 Having Christ's Spirit within us, we are to love our neighbors so fully through that it seems as though we are indebted to love our them. Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {6E4E63DC-6E8C-E5C2-5587-44A617E746D6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/evidence-of-faith/a466.html?app=1 Love of neighbor does not justify us to God. Faith in God does however, compel us to love our neighbor, and this is evidence of faith, and love of God. Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {DE1F4A8D-02B4-FCF7-46EE-2082C463DB77} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-twofold-effect-of-the-gospel/a463.html?app=1 The light exposes the darkness of human reason, doctrine, and works, and displays our need of the grace and glory of he who is Light from Light, true God from true God. Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {974F1636-7A18-0DBD-3004-48C28DB685DB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/to-know-christ/a460.html?app=1 The magi may not have known who the newborn king truly was, but you and I are called to attend to our vocations, then think only how we may know Christ. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {D7450A6C-6029-F116-8CBF-C38F6DA0772E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-rising-of-the-light/a459.html?app=1 The gospel is not the light but the expression of that eternal Light that has risen upon us. Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {7981795B-7EB6-D5DA-B066-5B487FDCA3E8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/through-faith/a452.html?app=1 This video was recorded in 2021, just as I was packing up my old study to move it to St. Paul's in Salisbury, NC. Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {1510641E-3AC3-84D0-92A7-4352AB54B577} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/he-is-written/a446.html?app=1 Your beliefs, especially doctrine about Christ, must come from the Scriptures. Rest your faith on Christ as found in the Word alone. Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {20CEE07E-02CC-2D92-B2C2-77E947661841} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-gift-of-god/a440.html?app=1 Just as little as it lies in one’s power to be born and to receive natural existence, so little does it lie in his power to be without sin or to escape from it. He who created us must take it away. Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {C7E94E6C-00ED-5214-ADD7-DE1AE5D87DB9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-mark-of-god/a432.html?app=1 We have received a mark, the sign of God's hand upon us. We are sealed with God's promise of salvation and eternal life through baptism and faith. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0800 {397EC69B-2A5C-9DD4-CF03-6EEFCB011514} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/christs-in-the-new-year/a2326.html?app=1 You can't wrap your mind around the Trinity. God is above the world and very different. We cannot imagine. So, God reveals himself and those with faith believe what he says about himself. Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {B39E8586-0FF3-8449-BF86-9C91366B1105} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/revealing-god/a2324.html?app=1 You can't wrap your mind around the Trinity. God is above the world and very different. We cannot imagine. So, God reveals himself and those with faith believe what he says about himself. Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {89ED644C-7064-1993-B1E8-E9CEC877F9D8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faith-on-the-other-side/a2320.html?app=1 Because God is a righteous judge, things must be eventually different: the godly must have eternal good — and the wicked, on the other hand, must be punished forever. Otherwise, he would not be either righteous or God. So, we must keep faith in ... Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {A6B83F25-96FF-E590-77AB-2925B64E9E76} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-word-alone/a2317.html?app=1 "Whoever believes the Word, does not care who the person is that speaks the Word, and neither will he honor the Word for the sake of the person; but on the contrary, he honors the person because of the Word, and always subordinates the person to ... Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {12F5868D-B124-C222-2006-B26C4B32FF1F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-least-of-these/a2314.html?app=1 Had you been in Bethlehem on that night, you would have paid as little attention to Christ as they did; but since it is now made known who Christ is, you profess to serve him, but you would hardly have done it before. If you do nothing for the ... Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {01C48020-01C6-B236-C592-B65FFA04A6B0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-comfort-of-grace/a2311.html?app=1 Jesus was a natural man in every respect just as we are — the only difference that he was without a sinful nature. It should be therefore, a great comfort to us that Jesus took upon himself our nature and flesh. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {9E14DB99-9315-AF78-6FAA-E780B0D4F70C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/right-and-gracious-faith/a2309.html?app=1 What lovelier and more comforting message can be heard than that our sins are not ours any more, that they no more lie on us, but on the Lamb of God. Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {40FB64E0-6575-9D81-C7A6-C9D7EB002FF1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/behold-the-lamb-of-god/a2305.html?app=1 What lovelier and more comforting message can be heard than that our sins are not ours any more, that they no more lie on us, but on the Lamb of God. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {7C7FED5D-0F69-C97F-1EFD-BBBF8D21FF69} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/directing-them-to-christ/a2302.html?app=1 The gospel is the final message of God, that which clearly directs people to Christ. So should we, like John the Baptist, direct people to Christ. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {A575F8E8-B468-E470-6B76-E830D2EB5520} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/preparing-the-way/a2299.html?app=1 "Preparing the way" is a metaphor for confronting people who need to repent. Preparing the way is proclamation of the law so that people do not depend upon themselves and their religion but trust in Christ alone. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {B256E01A-AEB6-7D40-2A4D-B3CEA26D2B4C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-natural-fruit-of-faith/a2296.html?app=1 We must first tell the sinners how they can be liberated from their sins and perceive a merciful God. When they have been released from the power of an evil conscience, joy will naturally result. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {186A8359-A1A8-D0F0-BDA1-D28BBDDC336F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-armor-of-light/a2266.html?app=1 It is not enough to put off the works of darkness. One must put on the armor of light by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ. Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {A333A5CF-3FDD-56EC-D249-E884ABEA6656} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/spiritually-poor/a1541.html?app=1 The gospel has not the least in common with the self-righteous. They want to become rich in works, but the gospel wills that they are to become poor. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {EA4CE0EC-2AE1-EDFB-B1C2-9770B0F77B94} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-spiritual-day/a1540.html?app=1 Christ is the Sun, the source of the spiritual day, from whom the gospel brightness shines throughout the world through the apostles' preaching. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {1353EACB-5BC6-4780-F06E-BD4CAE0DE641} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-peace-of-the-cross/a1538.html?app=1 All is well because of the peace of the cross, the peace of God, the peace of conscience, Christian peace, is the work of God that gives eternal calm. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {660EA66C-67D1-167E-15BF-EA407C984AD5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/priestly-prayer/a1537.html?app=1 Let no one decide that he will be utterly careless and rest upon God, making no effort, no exertion, not even resorting to prayer. Prayer is trust in God. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {DA24ED56-B0F3-BB38-A6E3-947468497547} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/serving-god/a1536.html?app=1 To serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor in love, whether enemy or friend, or whether you can help in temporal or spiritual matters. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {3487967C-B689-DAEB-88C8-A21009B740FD} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-offense-of-christ/a1534.html?app=1 The offense of doctrine may be the most beautiful religious ceremonies, the noblest works, so that only faith through the Spirit recognizes that it is all wrong. Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {8AF848F3-2AA1-0CA6-8C2E-1650D09E7834} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/in-gods-hands/a1530.html?app=1 Do you think that God cannot preserve in his care the souls of men so that they will never know how heaven and earth passed away? You are in God’s hands. Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {6EDBED98-279A-9CC6-89C0-E4FD0A0BD970} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/coming-in-power-and-grace/a1526.html?app=1 The coming of Christ will not be attended by drums and bugles and the like worldly pomp, but by spiritual power and grace. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {B7BA094A-922E-E7D7-1E93-BEC61F7A7312} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-promised-seed/a1524.html?app=1 We are not waiting for a Messiah and Savior yet to come. We are waiting each Advent for the Messiah and Savior who has come and will come again. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {5A62B2E5-58BB-BE92-6AE7-4DD2FC09574F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/wake-up/a1518.html?app=1 For the sake of gain, we rise from sleep and go to work. How much greater the need for us to awaken from our spiritual sleep, to engage the works of light. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {D25FD3F8-6251-9DF5-B1FA-AEFC182C8F31} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/well-prepared/a1514.html?app=1 There is no one so prepared for the judgment day as he who fears God and longs to be without sin. What do you fear? You are well prepared for that day. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {9CC6FE23-A53C-B56F-D14B-CFA528B43CF1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/his-kingdom-come/a1510.html?app=1 If we are true Christians we will earnestly and heartily join in Christ's prayer, saying "Thy kingdom come." If we do not so pray, we are not yet true Christians. Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {EBD599AE-63B3-8B70-ABE7-7871856BC51F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/signs-of-the-gospel/a1506.html?app=1 Let the unbeliever doubt and despise God’s signs and speak of them as simply natural; but let us hold fast to the Word that gives us sufficient warning. Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {2F2D96C7-845C-5F90-A1DB-AA6BFC846F23} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/signs/a1504.html?app=1 "People will eat and drink, buy and sell, marry and be given in marriage and wrap themselves up in this present life as if they expected to abide here forever." Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {5790B610-B87F-D0B7-1BC4-EFE468B8F93B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/absurd-doctrine/a1500.html?app=1 God sent his own Son into the world to do what humans cannot do by reason or religion. This is who we await in Advent, remembering again God's grace. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {E8B85E13-7E74-7099-836B-B8B54F71F812} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-spiritual-kingdom/a1497.html?app=1 We should not think of an earthly kingdom, nor of bodily salvation, but give attention to the promise of a spiritual kingdom and of a redemption. Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {A809A2A9-9254-54CE-E1E8-F291BC4BD0A4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/by-faith-alone/a1494.html?app=1 "The nature of faith is that it does not judge nor reason by what it sees, but by what it hears. It depends upon the Word alone and not on vision or sight." Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {44CE2957-3FDF-D0E4-FC7D-EC541F6D9E97} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/your-king-comes-to-you/a1490.html?app=1 “Your King comes to you” does not mean that you find him, but that he seeks and finds you. Faith and works too, come from him, not from you. Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {7F9033AF-CE4E-3F1F-4E08-3D366FEA8DA9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/your-neighbor-needs-you/a1487.html?app=1 Faith brings and gives Christ to you with all his possessions. Love brings and gives you to your neighbor along with all of your possessions. Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {D6487BE7-1A4F-35DC-357A-2B954CEC4559} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/awaiting-glory/a1485.html?app=1 At his coming, Christ will glorify our bodies until they correspond to his own immortal, glorious body, doing all this quite without the help of our works. Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {C5EDD2D6-7C50-89F3-C427-3914A1B1A5C0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-comfort-of-the-word/a1484.html?app=1 Christians should comfort themselves in the confidence that God will not permit the wrongs to his people to be left unpunished and unavenged. Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {2257B9C6-B8F1-B662-2D7C-A6C0ADBC13D4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/ready-for-advent/a1481.html?app=1 The last day will come and people will not expect it, even though that day is at the door. Told that these are signs of the last day, still they will not believe. Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {D4F67C78-9DD3-FC26-3C1D-4A100D82D792} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/spiritual-knowledge/a1480.html?app=1 We must know the meaning of Christ’s words: “This is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.” Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {201C0AFB-3454-0138-E4C9-3290B8A3A87A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/day-to-day-faith/a1479.html?app=1 To overcome unrest, discontent, and disgust in one's self, a firm faith in God is necessary, for such a faith faith brings rest, contentment and peace. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {F3A6D3CA-006C-0D7B-A8EF-8D28F44F3DC0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/kept-in-fear/a1474.html?app=1 We think we are safe begin to drift when we should fear God, always being concerned for our spiritual condition, so that we pray, "Lord, increase our faith." Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {92E81F14-63C8-95FB-80EE-40D5300574E2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/commending-ourselves-to-god/a1472.html?app=1 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {0B517DFA-2851-F55D-4C07-BC6185F6CA20} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/that-we-may-stand/a1469.html?app=1 May the Spirit of Christ move in you so that you might fear, love, and trust his Father and desire to stand before him in heaven in all his glorious majesty. Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {E051D80F-291F-78CF-8518-29E18B5AE98C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/striving-to-be-his/a1466.html?app=1 The Holy Spirit moves the heart to begin again to love each day. Christ is full of grace and truth, and through him grace and truth grow in us. Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {0A3AFC63-B94E-D631-E749-2ED1E7ED4EE2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/preaching-for-christs-sake/a1463.html?app=1 The gospel should not be preached in a corner, but before all people, whether or not we feel it effective, for it alone has the power to save. Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {CB5AD751-4135-B43F-2426-D3E41B713475} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/when-tempted/a1458.html?app=1 When tempted, a wise man is watchful, not relying on human knowledge, reason, or feelings, but he remembers God’s Word, and is guided thereby. Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {917137EB-47A5-BFC3-973C-2DB519F8A0E4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-golden-year-of-gods-word/a1456.html?app=1 The present time is unquestionably good and golden as long as the gospel of Jesus Christ is faithfully preached and received. Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {3713C8AE-7888-E732-63EC-32573D124583} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-noahic-covenant/a1453.html?app=1 It was no easy matter to believe that the whole human race was to perish, so the world judged Noah to be a dolt for believing such things and ridiculed him. Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {7CE8077D-15E9-516A-8244-88F645E2F52B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/your-neighbor-as-yourself/a1450.html?app=1 Regarding our neighbor's condition as our own, we should take upon ourselves their burdens, sins, and imperfections, and bear with them and help them to reform. Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {FE35FCBB-4024-5849-ACED-9346BCBA70E4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/willful-wickedness/a1446.html?app=1 The world will not allow that it must stand before judgment, but rages against God. Let us take heed that the wrath of God may not also sweep us away. Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {A7A37F6D-CF9E-4D83-3026-A90748AEBE43} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-right-righteousness/a1443.html?app=1 The righteousness of the law cannot provide confidence of mind. What does avail is God’s imputation of righteousness for Christ’s sake through faith. Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {1E7B1742-A1B1-0B96-6EC9-D68C3771CA1D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-table-of-gratitude-and-grace/a1440.html?app=1 "There is a twofold reason for you to receive the Lord’s Supper. It means gratitude and praise for Christ, and grace and solace for yourself." Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {514539C9-DDFD-E9D4-77E3-655AC9060CC6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/unmoved/a1438.html?app=1 The one who trusts in God will rejoice even if the whole world should burst upon his head. Such a person would stand unmoved amid the falling ruins. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {B981FA55-94C2-4DD8-6DFA-8D907CE3FB15} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/daily-fear/a1435.html?app=1 "We need to cling to God and pray: Merciful God, thou hast permitted me to become a Christian, help me to continue to be one and to increase daily in faith". Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {58F7F56A-D78A-5E70-9080-B8299428D7A1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/subduing-the-nations/a1432.html?app=1 If you would change the world, believe, preach, and live the gospel. This is how God has subdued the nations and you, through his Word. Go! Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {C70DAD21-7CFF-E661-209C-E7A6B7867C8E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-external-word/a1430.html?app=1 The external word or preaching is a means through which we receive God's grace, the forgiveness of sins, and the righteousness of Christ. Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {B9B760FE-D65B-6249-FD78-213CFCC46F14} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-book-of-comfort/a1427.html?app=1 The entire Scriptures were written for our learning. All Christians should make daily use of this book filled with God's word through which they find comfort. Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {F3F33805-DFD7-F122-1F22-6E0A8976B482} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/stages-of-faith/a1423.html?app=1 Pure and strong faith requires one to cast away all feelings, understanding, and reason, to trust in Christ's word, be satisfied with it, and feel secure in it. Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {152FFBE5-FF2E-44B4-3962-8C6A1E8377B1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/nothing-but-receiving/a1420.html?app=1 So far as the Holy Supper is a confession before men, the communicant proclaims Christ and teaches faith in him, spreading the kingdom of Christ. Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {52EAC5F6-EA87-AB03-AF6C-D2EF343A59E1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/triumphant-laughter/a1417.html?app=1 God laughs at us, at our attempts to triumph through our works, our politics, our religion. He mocks these human attempts at overcoming the troubles of life. Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {14890ABD-4FAF-4957-ED22-F4E81CA66AF7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-sum-of-the-matter/a1414.html?app=1 The sum of the matter is this, that those persons are saved who place their trust solely in God, not in their works, nor in any creature. Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {79C31D16-90A6-BAAC-BE7F-E81904AD90B5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/proper-attire/a1411.html?app=1 Faith is the appropriate attire for the wedding of God and his Bride. No one will be admitted to the marriage feast unless they are clothed in Christ. Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {E9046C72-2B31-EC8D-2A3E-5875D90396FA} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/equal-service/a1407.html?app=1 True service of praise is not established with revenues, laws, and programs. The only true service we all can render him is to praise and to thank him. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0800 {C87DA2DF-A699-3684-9940-1B389FE0517C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/remember/a1404.html?app=1 Do not be terrified of sin but call to mind your baptism. Comfort yourself that God covenanted to forgive your sins and not condemn you for Christ's sake. Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {1ACC6034-1E95-DAFE-E202-105974533205} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/god-wants-us/a1395.html?app=1 If I gave God all the good works I could, it would be of no use to him; He wants my whole heart; he wants me. This marriage union is accomplished by faith. Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {395F3674-8DD2-F09E-AD5C-D58E7995E43E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/godly-pity/a2186.html?app=1 Don't take offense at people's rage against the Lord or his Church. Simply live your life in faith. Luther did the same. Even when those who called themselves Christians attacked, he commended them to God while he lived faithfully, proclaiming ... Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A8576FAB-5DAD-B199-6C48-7FCE30D022CB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-way-of-faith/a1393.html?app=1 God leads us, not in the way of sense or reason, but in the way of faith alone, even of that faith that sees in darkness and beholds things that are invisible. Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {5AEDC621-461F-55B3-C58A-562606C3E4ED} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/true-man-and-true-god/a1391.html?app=1 "Christ was both David’s true natural son, of his blood and flesh, and also David’s Lord, whom David himself must worship and hold as God." Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {35C615D8-6457-25FC-7FE4-48EB1FC9E87A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/unity-of-the-church/a1389.html?app=1 Christian unity resists sin and everything opposed to the religion of Christ, so the apostle enjoins us to be likeminded according to Christ Jesus. Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0F4A894F-FFBB-43DA-AFCD-1CA2C822D7A1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-sin-of-ingratitude/a1387.html?app=1 No sin is more abominable to human nature, and of none is human nature less tolerant than the sin of ingratitude, for returning love and friendship with hatred. Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {862987DC-7ED6-4CFB-41C9-6C973A31412C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-evils-of-ingratitude/a1384.html?app=1 "The devil takes no respite, but whenever the gospel is preached in its purity he mixes with the children of God and sows his tares." Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0780967F-F078-0017-3DCC-A1A035B29C54} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-unity-of-the-church/a1378.html?app=1 The unity of the Church does not consist in similarity of outward forms and customs but because it represents one plain, pure gospel doctrine. Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0611DFD2-8AD2-E69E-2756-9642A69E9A55} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/showing-faith/a1377.html?app=1 This earthly life is not for our own sake but instead, our lives and everything we do, must contribute to the honor and glory of Jesus Christ our Lord. Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C03F2C90-082B-A9E9-A648-AB0A8A8597D9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/holding-fast-in-faith/a1371.html?app=1 The apostle implores God that they may increase and persevere in faith. Such is the great value he places upon possessing and holding fast God’s Word. Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7C090930-A0DA-36D7-5DC2-054DC9F04084} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-prosperity-of-grace/a1369.html?app=1 Blessed are those persons who delight in God's Word, for they will prosper in the Lord's grace. Planted near this stream of truth, their spirits will grow in faith. Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F057FD04-F3B5-7814-1001-9A38CD4D42B5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/freely-forgiven/a1366.html?app=1 The conscience knows its standing with God only through the merits of Christ Jesus. So long as we try to appease God, the conscience is troubled. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {38A93C13-F292-7542-F129-FCE224994CB5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/standing-firmly/a1362.html?app=1 It is dangerous to live heedlessly, for the devil is likely to take you by surprise. When you think you stand securely, he is ready to strike you down. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {550BECD8-CBCA-BD55-B75A-64DFD8864EA5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/he-promised/a1360.html?app=1 "God has promised me through his Son, and confirmed it through my baptism, that he who hears and sees the Son shall be delivered from sin and death." Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C7C734E9-B0DE-3B55-E23A-E3D2CF476CBF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/enriched/a1357.html?app=1 "What Paul terms being enriched “in all utterance” ... is having the comfort of faith in Christ and of invocation and prayer ... the Word of God ... Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, the Commandments and the Creed." Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D4FE6108-A3EA-E421-F3FD-A8598BD56C4B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/renewed/a1354.html?app=1 "Since Christians, by the grace and Spirit of God, are now renewed in this image of God, they are so to live that soul and spirit are righteous and pleasing to God through faith in Christ..." Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F94B081B-729C-E2F7-AF6B-CEEDAB4EFC41} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-old-man/a1351.html?app=1 "True Christians so live that it is apparent from their lives that they keep God before their eyes and truly believe the gospel." Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {1D30A2D8-8D5A-8737-C63F-58B4A08D554A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/one-in-ten/a1348.html?app=1 We are sufficiently warned in the gospel to follow Christ, not the doctrines of men, so that no excuse will help us if we allow ourselves to be deceived. Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F8EE00DC-22E4-1595-4C86-182849DBD9FE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/calling-jesus-“lord”/a1344.html?app=1 All Christians may equally call Christ “Lord.” One may be assured he serves Christ if he can call him “Lord,” for only by the Holy Spirit is he enabled to do so. Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D992D2A8-9590-9C86-48EC-60DB559E510D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/knowledge-of-sin/a1340.html?app=1 There is no work or merit in the kingdom, but only the acknowledgment of all our misfortune, and the reception of the gospel upon which faith depends Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0DDAA0AF-D66B-5CEF-8CEF-9392CE8D5FE9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/behold-his-glory/a1338.html?app=1 "We are not only to be with him, but we are also to come to a clear, bright view of his glory. Here upon earth we have it and recognize it only by faith." Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F751B7A8-C1E1-D869-84D9-2B49B89C15D7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-authority-to-proclaim/a1335.html?app=1 All who have been baptized and who believe in Christ have the authority and power to forgive sins in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {1B5AF593-71AB-97C5-3DD9-C741F09444CF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/kingdom-comfort/a1331.html?app=1 "Let us ... remain on the right road to the kingdom of Christ with the words of the gospel which comfort the conscience: Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven." Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C193C7BB-C4BC-F69B-1AEE-FB0F99F7B95C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/fulfilling-gods-law/a1329.html?app=1 "We have need of the law, that love may be manifested; but if it cannot be kept without injury to our neighbor, God wants us to suspend it." Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0B60E787-FDEB-DF99-8A3E-5FDBC7CC6B57} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/pleasing-service/a1325.html?app=1 Service is displeasing to God when done without the command and word of God. First comes love, then follows the service that will be pleasing to God. Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {50CCB5CA-E54C-9869-2AA4-12CEA5E51252} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-christian-life/a1322.html?app=1 The Christian life does not need much doctrine, nor many books. Indeed, the Christian life is wholly contained in faith and love. Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {97AF9219-24AA-9197-7F61-1C8AADBA332B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faith-and-love/a1320.html?app=1 Faith is everything and saves us, and on this account we are not idle but labor much for the benefit of our neighbor, for we have enough in Christ. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E398FE6D-6466-AF3A-C024-5914BBE5299B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/securing-the-unseen/a1317.html?app=1 In the end, we will not see a single thing we would like to have. But faith is the principle by which we secure what we do not see. We must fully trust God... Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3B3CCF6A-C8FF-2756-5E58-B50F16977496} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/follow-the-pattern/a1314.html?app=1 Paul urges us to hold steadily to what we have received by walking as he does; shaping their belief and conduct by the pattern we have received from him. Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {CE71157C-93D0-75F4-FA8B-A0B8C4F23BE2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-inner-man/a1311.html?app=1 Faith in Jesus Christ is nothing but real help and pure grace. God designs to have me as his child in Christ, placed above all things temporal and eternal. Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {06098403-5BD3-DADB-7643-6F23F9B6776F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/appearances/a1308.html?app=1 Let us guard against everything that makes for only a show, and not reject what does not make a display, so that we do not reject Christ and God. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {9096A2F4-5401-E8FB-FC9F-3557DCAAEC3C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-spirit-within/a1306.html?app=1 The witness of the Holy Spirit within you is the power of the Holy Spirit working through the Word, a confirmation being that you have pleasure and delight in God’s Word. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C5E1517E-C37B-242A-262F-13DF39C7D10E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/speaking-forgiveness/a1303.html?app=1 You have the power to speak the Word; whoever believes has forgiveness of sins. If they believe not, then what you speak avails nothing though it be God’s Word. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {97BD5D63-040F-E46E-5D54-AD20DC090E73} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/serving-one-lord/a1299.html?app=1 God would not have us be overanxious for our life, but labor and commend our anxiety to him, so, he does not allow us to have another Lord besides himself. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {47FB4349-BBFE-33FD-80D0-3208DF35E4E7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/tempting-christ/a1296.html?app=1 "The eternal Son of God was from the beginning with his church and with the people who received the promise of his coming in the form of man." Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {5D9738DF-5AD2-E99C-301B-CBA6769FBDE0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-only-help/a1293.html?app=1 The man who lies half dead, wounded and stripped of his clothing, is all mankind. The Samaritan is our Lord Jesus Christ Cling to him, your only help. Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {6A5E72D3-FBC6-A4D1-EBBE-6568D3545223} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/adhering-to-the-word/a1290.html?app=1 We must lay hold of the gospel in such a way that we may stand and say: “Not because a certain one taught, do I believe ... the doctrine itself is right." Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {99B5A479-7A08-779C-EF72-B58A2BBB0037} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/we-are-the-widow/a1287.html?app=1 The widow's misfortune is portrayed here so that we might learn that with God nothing is impossible, whether it be misfortune, calamity, anger, or whatever. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3E584A61-84EE-BD5A-D24B-6D1C021B11C3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-righteousness-of-god/a1284.html?app=1 Jesus freely gives me his life with all his works, so that I may appropriate them to myself as a possession that is my own but is bestowed upon me as a free gift. Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {74883CAA-FC83-20DE-1CE3-6DCA7E710EEC} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/thy-will-be-done/a1281.html?app=1 "Human nature alone will never be able to accomplish what God requires in this commandment, namely, that we surrender our will to the will of God..." Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {4C67F95B-08CD-58EE-1DB8-37C2595180AA} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-firm-assurance-of-faith/a1278.html?app=1 The more misery and death are in us, the more richly we may find comfort and life in Christ Jesus, provided we hold fast to him by faith through his Word. Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7BBEC477-E5C5-1261-FD96-FF6215178F09} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/suffering-life/a1275.html?app=1 What would all the riches and nobility of the world be compared with being named and chosen by God himself, called his son, the heir of exalted divine majesty? Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {EC064F70-E377-CA2D-60BB-5CB7CF77AECB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-anxious-world/a1272.html?app=1 Christians need not waver, nor stake their affairs on that which is uncertain, vainly caring for the future, but at all times do that which is right. Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3ED3F084-CBAC-11AE-EC7F-FDB6E3C0C8A7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/first-things-first/a1269.html?app=1 Do this for the honor of God and for your own benefit: strive after the great and eternal good. If you attain and keep this, the rest will surely take care of itself. Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3F6CB09A-0CF0-2A06-B312-7D2F05A8B0F3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-gracious-offer/a1265.html?app=1 The preaching of the precious gospel offers God’s grace and mercy in Christ, which is offered to condemned sinners without any merit of their own. Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7AC47297-BBF8-358C-9098-60ADA0BB89E0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-sooner-the-better/a1262.html?app=1 If overcome by wrath and led to rashness, do not continue in it, do not harbor it, but subdue and restrain it, the sooner the better. Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {BFED6A4B-B884-3691-1AD3-6AD02964C533} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-chief-good/a1259.html?app=1 To love God with all the mind is to cleave to him who is our chief good, to do nothing against his will, to take nothing except what is pleasing to God. Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A6722FB4-516F-757E-3D0C-A3374555E701} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-sin-remover/a1256.html?app=1 If you would be freed from your sins, do not chastise yourself with them, but seize Christ, the one who has taken your sins upon himself. Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {FFA1A093-BD2A-8325-AC33-E8BB3B7641D4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-house-of-god/a1254.html?app=1 "Wherever God’s Word is preached, there is God’s own true house, there God most certainly dwells with his grace. Wherever his gospel is, there..." Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {CDEC133A-D84C-4A43-00FD-3E64AEBC17E1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/craving-riches/a1250.html?app=1 Love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. Through this craving some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7DA65B71-D380-3EC0-757D-405ADD9A1034} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-bold-faith-of-lepers/a1247.html?app=1 The lepers went boldly to meet Jesus, certain that he could heal them. Standing in firmness and sincerity against doubt, they confidently prayed. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B33F0DD4-6CDB-730F-6B93-AD9BEA0DB453} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-consolation-of-faith/a1244.html?app=1 You need no longer be afraid of condemnation because of your unworthiness for you have the consolation of faith, the assurance of grace. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {5BDDF639-7A7B-3226-82F3-443E8E0956E6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/trusting-the-gospel/a1241.html?app=1 Faith grows out of the Word of God, producing the good fruit of love and mercy and all manner of godly care for one's neighbor. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {BF1A76B7-D972-5744-3996-2928ABA80B4D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faithful-suffering/a1238.html?app=1 "It assuages and comforts the sufferer beyond measure to know that he does not suffer alone, but with a great multitude." Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {151C7C7D-05E1-65A2-AE09-EA44DDFDEE12} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/that-which-makes-for-peace/a1235.html?app=1 God has opened the treasures of his holy gospel to us, so we may learn his will. Will we believe and know peace or disbelieve and suffer wrath? Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {149A1593-95DC-43F8-C7B1-F09DB3DC8C77} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/nothing-more/a1233.html?app=1 "We should therefore despair of ourselves and pray to God for faith as the apostles did. When we have faith we need nothing more..." Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {34BA0F2E-F7BE-3653-F9CE-80AEBAB4C097} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/evident-faith/a1229.html?app=1 Once we have been baptized into Christ and believe, his will is that we should then live accordingly, obeying God and doing what is commanded. Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {491927F3-771B-A854-96B8-F7A2F9998D90} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/gods-dollar/a1223.html?app=1 "Christ commands the disciples to set the loaves before the multitude, by which he shows that he will administer his work and gifts through the instrumentality of human agencies." Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {5E7BD231-87CB-AE9F-FBE5-D903F83813E7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/blessed-ears/a1220.html?app=1 What would it help the critics of Christ if the gospel was preached twice as clearly as it is? They are so deafened by their own conceits that they can hear nothing else. Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7A6A14A3-2065-AABC-7CD6-5F3144AEAFA1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/no-other-gods/a1217.html?app=1 "When we come before God the Father, Christ will say: Father! Although they have not wholly fulfilled thy law, yet I have done so, let this be to their benefit because they believe in me." Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {478A512E-467E-81C7-7748-C430260405DB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-cup-of-cold-water/a1214.html?app=1 "Oh, how heavy and terrible the impending judgment for those who have denied to Christ the Lord, in his thirst, even the cup of cold water." Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F4D8E3DB-2F77-BC16-639B-3D9B0C38D588} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/that-they-may-hear-and-believe/a1211.html?app=1 Luther uses the this story to illustrate how office of ministry brings the Word to people so that they may hear and be given faith to believe. Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {91E68AB7-8573-644A-F905-129ED12038A6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-heavenly-force/a1208.html?app=1 The Spirit impresses Christ and his works upon the heart, making it a true book which does not consist in tracing mere letters and words, but in true life and action. Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C8A28E89-2D2C-96F4-7D9B-F97561BA7E2C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faith-bears-fruit/a1204.html?app=1 Good works do not make one pious or good. One must first be good and pious at heart. The tree must first be there to bear the fruit. Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {30456C07-A452-1513-2F28-06A17F621E12} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/exercise-judgment/a1202.html?app=1 So much of what false teachers' have afflicted the church with in recent decades is easily overcome by exercising judgment through the Word. Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0B2194CB-D8DE-C7BE-0EEB-F4A96AD758CB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/trusting-god-with-the-future/a1199.html?app=1 No one thinks of saving for posterity, but live as if they rejoice in destroying everything at once. Yet in all this destruction God will nevertheless help us. Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {689B42A4-71E6-DA9E-46C6-BF6ABDA506E7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/god-will-take-care-of-you/a1195.html?app=1 "All who faithfully cling to the Word of God will be fed by God; for that is the nature and power of faith, which flows alone out of the Word of God." Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {814A078A-D467-F8FA-133F-0F5428D8FBD9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/eternal-delight/a1192.html?app=1 Our eternal life, attained through faith in Christ. will be to know God, delight in his wisdom, and enjoy the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {12518DDA-E457-A448-6119-92B4370071E0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/worthy-of-your-calling/a1189.html?app=1 "The chief thing that should influence a Christian’s outward walk is the remembrance of his calling and appointment by God." Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {282500F0-092D-2AB8-83DC-078A0A96A317} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/led-by-the-spirit/a1186.html?app=1 "To be 'led by the Spirit of God' means to be given a heart which gladly hears God’s Word and believes that in Christ it has grace and the forgiveness of sins." Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3BFE7585-6788-E298-F547-6C3791E776A8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/resist/a1183.html?app=1 "It is natural for us to feel hurt when suffering, injustice, and violence attack us...it becomes necessary to check and restrain the feelings of anger..." Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A1F2D2BD-B1CE-CE27-5B18-3A44CDA9E1A3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-sinful-conscience/a1178.html?app=1 "Not until Peter considered himself unworthy did he become really worthy. Just because you are a sinful person you must the more trust in God." Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D4BD54BB-9E61-6489-D322-482E4F358218} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/without-distinction/a1171.html?app=1 "Christians must not seek their own, but look at all alike, whether friend or foe, as our heavenly Father does. Without such mercy, there is no true faith." Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D2E28A9B-FC8F-6B11-91B4-5B24978E0D6D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/bold-peace/a1174.html?app=1 "There is peace, strength and comfort in the heart, so that the heart cares for no evil, is really bolder and more joyful in its presence than in its absence." Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B2CC740C-05A9-39BC-1B74-F1975D693A50} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-majestic-command/a1168.html?app=1 Noah kept his eye on the majesty of him who gave the command. That was enough for him, even though the command seemed absurd or impossible. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {03A0F7E8-1A23-602B-ED68-947BCC62B2CA} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/eat-what-is-in-front-of-you/a1165.html?app=1 God performs his miracles along the lines of natural law. Looking for bread from heaven, rather than by human means, tests God and is a sin. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3A587D24-8C10-F478-10EF-A4F57FD133CF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-constant-dying/a1161.html?app=1 Christians have help and strength to resist and mortify sin. and must constantly put to death the flesh lest they be put to death by it. Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {213163FB-B29F-9028-0341-108D13E55710} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-sufficiency/a1158.html?app=1 It is a glory that every preacher may be able to say with full confidence that he trusts God for teaching and preaching truly the Word of God. Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D600C13B-A8C4-FD62-AA21-FAF926086C27} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/bless-the-work-of-our-hands/a1154.html?app=1 Christ keeps aloof from the lazy, unfaithful idlers who will not do as they have been commanded, and will not keep their hands and feet from straying. Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C03CAA14-4355-DF1A-5C36-4394CE8B363E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/on-being-useful/a1151.html?app=1 Christ has not come to make you afraid, but to remove your sins and distress from you. “Fear not,” he speaks to your heart, and to the whole world. Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {DE1D9F5F-74EE-03EA-04A4-751C1E9D5278} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-curse-of-humanity/a1148.html?app=1 The curse of humanity is they shall never be satisfied and must endure heartache and everlasting destruction through the things they have coveted. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7C307CE3-D08D-B2CA-DB4C-11091D2F9D76} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/no-worries/a1145.html?app=1 If you only remain under Christ's protection and lie still upon his shoulders, you need not be troubled about sin, death, or hell, for he defends you. Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {1E19EAA0-E538-28DB-06F7-D4FF77A4CAEA} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/god-remembered/a1142.html?app=1 No life is so difficult as the life of faith, depending only upon the promises of God when the who world seems to say, "God has forgotten all about you." Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {721FF2DB-E082-45DB-3532-AA293A8F3993} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/revelation-of-the-divine/a1139.html?app=1 Scripture shows us that in God there are three persons — not three Gods or three kinds of divinity, but the same undivided, divine essence. Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F43060DD-2607-7545-7053-700FCCA281E8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-neighbors-honor/a1138.html?app=1 We are to cover the shame of our neighbor with our own honor and piety, not cause wounds caused by gossip that we cannot heal. Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B23F08F2-FCED-28A1-058B-2B261A5E2175} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/helping-sinners/a1133.html?app=1 "We should rebuke and deal with the sinner in earnest; yet we are not to despise but sincerely to love him." Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {643EC126-B6D9-B535-0393-D6AE243A02DE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-humble-gospel/a1130.html?app=1 "The tongue of a minister — the language he employs — must be of that simplicity which preaches naught but Christ," and brings him the glory. Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E61D8126-056D-FC02-F401-F4F855E87FF6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/misdirection/a1127.html?app=1 We are not to be deceived by so-called ghosts, which are not souls but instead, demons bent on misdirecting a believer's focus on the living Christ. Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {ACB8D7BB-02CB-65B1-37A7-253F1C8B8FB6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-inclination-of-the-heart/a1124.html?app=1 Even pious people can scarcely stand firm, often being entangled by gross sins and natural corruptions, for original sin is complete lawlessness. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {71C5275B-F593-32DC-E92F-834EC514142C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/intolerant/a1121.html?app=1 We teach all to trust in the grace of God, not in their own worthiness, and to render him gratitude for his grace. This is intolerable to the world. Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D92E51C3-F27F-98FA-1587-72127F4220C7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-divine-reminder/a1118.html?app=1 Although the Christians senses within himself the presence of evil thoughts and lusts, yet his faith and the Holy Spirit remind him of his baptism. Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {CB9DAF7B-58C7-D887-C678-F87F0882C8EA} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/blind-to-grace/a1115.html?app=1 God showers his gifts on an ungrateful world, whose people go about their lives as though sight and hearing were due them. And so, we miss God's grace. Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {77116785-5AC0-4AA4-1F8D-584C5B68F9BF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/stewards-of-the-gospel/a1112.html?app=1 Christians do not follow pastors; they follow Christ Jesus. Pastors preach the gospel, a message that leads lost sheep to the one who saves them. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {CFF63D77-E337-39FE-EF82-D6B068D76E29} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-righteous-man/a1109.html?app=1 Noah is called “just” because he first believed, then “perfect” (“upright”) because he walked in the fear of God and conscientiously avoided sins. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {9F84BE57-3978-AF5C-77A3-0BEED9A1500F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-friend-of-sinners/a1103.html?app=1 The religious people were enemies of Christ because of the people Jesus called his friends: sinners who wanted to follow him. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B5D31AC5-98D9-461E-96C3-F026D7494E83} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/nothing-to-do/a1100.html?app=1 When one senses his wretchedness, then is the time to believe in Jesus Christ. There are no other means to save you, save be baptized and believe. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F0BA9AB0-4813-5C67-4CEF-06DB86300281} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-cares-of-the-church/a1097.html?app=1 "Christians have regard for God’s Word and believe that God cares for them. They commend all things to him and at his word go on with courage." Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D4810924-3B0C-6B71-6627-8F34952A9953} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-cure-for-the-conscience/a1094.html?app=1 "Reason argues: You have sinned, you must also atone for your sin. The gospel of Christ says: You have sinned, another must atone for you." Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3FAD3E09-0559-5D05-77DA-BAF696D4FEFD} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-golden-age/a1091.html?app=1 We are in the golden age because we have the light of God’s Word and the sacraments are rightly administered in our churches. Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {5C39AA07-D5CA-BCEF-4F7F-2ABB741A25A9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-double-blessing/a1088.html?app=1 The service of righteousness in Christ has the double blessing of a clear conscience before God and the rich and incorruptible reward of eternal life. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3802850F-0BA0-7C32-42D1-F4DAB2A328EE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/proof-of-faith/a1085.html?app=1 Faith is not an inactive and lifeless thing. When there is faith in the heart, its power will be manifested toward God and one's neighbor. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {5748F6BF-4F72-1DA4-7611-7C0651FF6448} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-power-of-the-resurrection/a1082.html?app=1 It is by the power of the resurrection of Christ that Thomas, and us, who are so deep and obdurate in unbelief, are so suddenly changed. Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {2617AC4C-ABDB-BB97-1F4C-B7ECCB5BB68E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-heavy-heart/a1079.html?app=1 The most religious person will be lost and condemned if he will not believe. For there is no forgiveness of sins, nor salvation, if one does not believe. Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {602A3229-D161-E8B3-F9B6-1A4520C6EA08} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/preference/a1077.html?app=1 We make excuses, preferring many things against the gospel, for we are no better than were the ancient Jews, who also rejected the gospel for the law. Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E91DBC0B-7C2A-88C1-42CA-658F6F9C9186} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/division/a1073.html?app=1 Wherever the Word of God has a foothold, there the devil will be. He will always build his taverns and kitchens by the side of God’s house. Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E0655977-1BEC-770A-4051-7D20250EBD65} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/every-christian/a1071.html?app=1 Jesus sends every Christian to instruct and teach his neighbor, that he may also come to Christ, a power not reserved for popes, bishops, and pastors. Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {EE1B8A69-4B39-8007-83E7-AE71C44EFC07} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/being-acceptable-to-god/a1067.html?app=1 "Poverty and suffering make no one acceptable to God; but if he is already acceptable to God, his poverty and suffering are precious in God’s eyes." Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {CECDA5C8-A99A-B74C-487E-C13962922AF0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/dead-and-alive/a1064.html?app=1 This old man must be crucified, executed, put out of the way, even here in this life. Were he remains in his strength, faith and spirit cannot be. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D83FFBE5-FF52-C313-E723-EA6C4070D25D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/nagging-questions/a1061.html?app=1 If you wish to proceed wisely and truly apprehend God, you can do no better than to be interested in his Word where he has revealed himself. Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A4B85D82-07A9-7D8B-C722-25B213ADA823} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-comfort-of-communion/a1060.html?app=1 The preaching of Christ feeds his guests through holy baptism, comforting and strengthening them through the Sacrament of his body and blood. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {632D6267-3955-EBCD-22B4-5C4967433789} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-death-that-brings-life/a1056.html?app=1 Through baptism, Christ dedicates us to himself — he decides for us, elects us — and imparts to us the power of his death and resurrection. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {27806A67-7474-90FB-AAB4-36C8944BE75A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-need-of-a-savior/a1052.html?app=1 Before man may receive righteousness and eternal life, there must come One who has eternal righteousness and life, who appeases God’s wrath. Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B6D040D9-31B1-6329-F51A-4AEE7209AE29} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-overthrow-of-nature/a1051.html?app=1 We must abandon the life of the flesh and enter into new life, dead to the old. There must be a real change and an overthrow of nature and feeling. Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {057CA745-7EE2-7D2F-D7F2-AB9880AF7064} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/one-god-one-mind/a1046.html?app=1 Knowing that you all embrace the one true God's Word, hold together in one faith and one mind, not disagreeing as though you had many gods. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {8D1CFF43-97E9-3218-346E-1B82FFB81709} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-bread-of-life/a1043.html?app=1 "In these words the soul finds a well prepared table, at which it satisfies all hunger; for it knows of a certainty that he who speaks cannot lie." Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {EEE76F2B-2D49-8400-9401-DCCAB023EBEB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/god-forbid/a1040.html?app=1 Sin is not forgiven so that we may sin all the more, taking God's grace for granted and taking advantage, but so that conscience is free to love God. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A6A3148A-6FE3-218B-E025-935ED472A5C5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/true-faith/a1038.html?app=1 "Faith, if it is true faith, is of such a nature that it does not rely upon itself, but holds to Christ, and takes refuge under his righteousness." Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {87E84879-7E3C-6F1C-9E87-317AE414CBEF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/losing-faith-in-self/a1034.html?app=1 The preaching of the law shows us that our entire lives and characters, however holy and beautiful they may seem, are nothing before God. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {5109A97E-DE39-A341-3A33-DFADE152ED73} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/resembling-cain/a1032.html?app=1 All people are in ancient Cain's very same condition, for unless our nature is helped by the Spirit of God, it cannot maintain itself. Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {2873BD03-7286-C0FD-CEF1-FF88D9A4636B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/temperance/a1029.html?app=1 Because God has so richly shed upon us the gospel of light, we ought in honor and gratitude to him try to reform and temper ourselves. Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {62207E1E-6C24-981A-9C7A-43FCB7E18FE9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-two-kingdoms/a1025.html?app=1 The two powers, God’s and Caesar’s, or spiritual and temporal kingdoms, must be kept apart, Christians especially rendering to each the honor due. Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0C4D8A7D-5EE5-CA7C-2184-0FC39AFD27F2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-death-of-sin/a1022.html?app=1 Christ Jesus was buried that he might, through forgiveness, cover up, mortify, and destroy our sin, whether actually committed or inherent in us. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C0072329-1F63-9B1D-9AD1-7EABA94AF5CB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/strong-medicine/a1019.html?app=1 God provides strong medicine to cure the sinful condition but this gives no license to make oneself ill so that more medicine may be received. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {F72EFF1E-B1CA-A2F0-D273-F46A48CEBC86} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/blessed-eyes/a1016.html?app=1 You are blessed if your have heard and seen with your heart the Lord Jesus Christ, for there are those who have heard and seen without perception. Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {FCB14F4A-DFDD-939A-9EEE-AFEA16DDE1A0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/subject-to-hope/a1013.html?app=1 Since man has fallen in sin, we all — the whole creation — must suffer the consequence and be subject to futility and vanity...and yet may have hope. Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {60FF61A6-E528-CACB-7CBA-550030B90B31} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/exercising-faith/a1008.html?app=1 Following Christ means that our whole life is a constant exercise of faith, whereby we are assured that we have favor with God because of him. Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B3EA9C37-B974-0203-97B3-6A2C5AE41C23} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-rest-of-conscience/a1005.html?app=1 My conscience must rest upon the foundation, the eternal, all-knowing truth that God alone is truth, and must rest upon him and nothing else. Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {BEBF454F-07A7-D558-C69F-50CA296C3D81} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-humble-fear-of-god/a1002.html?app=1 God never lays his hand upon us in order that we would be damned but pursues a course that leads us to repentance, so we would seek his grace. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {CEF68069-F96F-015A-649B-FD54FB3C5112} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/gods-image-in-our-neighbor/a999.html?app=1 Man is made in God's image and God wills that we revere his image in our neighbor, doing all we can for him, protecting him and doing him good. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B25B95DA-D41F-E005-D60A-8909670D663B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/cain-or-abel/a996.html?app=1 In Cain, we see the hateful world, and on the other hand, that poor, abject Abel well represents the obscure little brotherhood: the Church of Christ. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0B8603E8-665C-A97F-E891-EA894E6E3184} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-only-and-true-light/a995.html?app=1 "All who preach the doctrines of men make man the light, lead men away from God to themselves, and set themselves up as the true Light." Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3814E59F-8C80-0915-6E4D-81AF628D8E0F} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-rock-and-anchor/a992.html?app=1 "Come what will, let us say: Here is God’s Word; that is my rock and anchor; to that I cling and that abides; and where that abides, there I abide also." Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7580858D-6DE0-FD94-CCB0-A5FF09E02E07} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-hope-of-glory/a988.html?app=1 Christians are to be confident of eternal glory, to implore the Lord God to hasten the Day, for Jesus has taught us to pray, “Thy kingdom come.” Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {0CECA43F-5848-128E-D226-36BA31B05098} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/christs-peace/a984.html?app=1 We must be able to say that we know we have God’s pledge and the witness of the Holy Spirit, that he wants to be our Father through Christ, his Son. Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {92B33951-8301-BB1A-B54A-6D7F548F2E6E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/if-you-love-me/a981.html?app=1 Experience teaches how difficult it is to keep Christ's Word, but the Christian will love Christ, his Word, and his kingdom more than all things of the earth. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {9ECBE967-E5F3-BED7-7382-B9D5251E437B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/leave/a978.html?app=1 God uses marriage to get us out of our parents' homes so we may grow up, make a home and family of our own, and enjoy the blessings of that estate. Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {58A1296C-8A21-B08D-0F98-2A1C1EF9463B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/woman/a976.html?app=1 One of the sweetest pleasures of Christian marriage is not sexual, that the blessing of the sense of completeness at being merely with one another. Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E9E8A0EF-B3F5-981B-9B19-1365C1F1070B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/bless/a974.html?app=1 You may be a blessing to your neighbor because you know you are a child of God, received into his grace, and living in the sure hope of salvation. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7BAFA6FE-8DE8-EA62-5A0C-BD48A060FB40} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-dawn-of-glory/a971.html?app=1 The whole creation cries out for a speedy end of these injustices and abuses of the ungodly, and for the dawning of glory for the children of God! Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {69387D1C-CEA2-C44A-ADA2-49D860D79825} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/delusions/a970.html?app=1 If the affections and thoughts of men are without faith in God, they are without Christ and his Word, and therefore, they are without the truth. Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {6633A1EA-88ED-BD30-6AC4-18D4CA85E312} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/just-passing-through/a967.html?app=1 God would have us occupy this world as guests, striving after an eternal kingdom, abstaining from lusts, maintaining a godly life of good works. Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {8410A271-508A-5117-76EA-BC501B5FBAF0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-revelation/a964.html?app=1 The affection of the intended husband toward his betrothed spouse is of a particular and elevated kind, a knowledge and revelation of the Holy Spirit. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {EA450ECC-8CB0-12A1-51D0-2E0F071DC511} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/prayer-in-love/a959.html?app=1 Christians should love and pray for the salvation of all, for the sanctification of God’s name, the coming of his kingdom, and the fulfilment of his will. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {88A6C8FE-0990-4CB1-0882-7B209AE30A74} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/journey-on-in-joy/a954.html?app=1 Even in danger and death, you have a faithful Father and Savior, who has taken you into his own hand, and will preserve you. Journey on in joy. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A8FBFB45-0250-88DA-F8DB-17172BDFFBC2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/open-ears/a952.html?app=1 God’s ears are open to the prayers of the righteous, looking upon you with gracious, winning eyes, his ears alert even to the faintest sound of prayer. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {DACA765B-CE9D-8ADD-87E0-7C408EDB3EFC} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/christ-in-you/a948.html?app=1 One may confess Christ but still deny him in deeds and works, by insisting he is his own lord through his religious observances being the way to salvation. Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {BB086ED3-5BD1-E16A-2DBF-E268FCD4E2D4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/spirit-fall/a947.html?app=1 It is not enough that Christ be preached; the Word must be believed. So, God sends the Holy Spirit to impress the preaching upon the heart. Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {6941FF2F-4133-B59C-D3BD-96B18BEDA5DF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-precondition-of-kindness/a943.html?app=1 It is impossible to love, where no faith exists, and impossible to believe, where there is no love. Love of neighbor depends upon the love of God. Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {ADF7015F-D78F-C841-9155-62EBB3C79855} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-inner-person/a939.html?app=1 We are not condemned because we have great riches, but because we are attached to them and trust in them, instead of in Jesus Christ the Lord. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {75515A9F-A799-E300-583E-EE053C9C4D1B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/beware/a935.html?app=1 God often lays hold upon leaders of sects who blaspheme with false doctrines, inflicting on them unusual punishments for the sake of warning others. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E0A3ECCA-0B45-F423-7E3C-373C650B4DEF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/harmony/a934.html?app=1 As long as unity of faith and oneness of mind survive, the true Church of God abides, so we must be careful to cherish the virtue of harmony. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {284DF45D-26AD-FC78-E37C-2A58BF853FF6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/anger-management/a930.html?app=1 An angry heart knows no moderation, fanning a tiny spark into a conflagration, retaliating and cursing, committing a greater wrong than suffered. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {05608B6D-CB0C-4B9D-096B-58977233ADEC} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/like-god/a928.html?app=1 The day will come when only righteousness and holiness shall dwell on the earth — none but godly, righteous souls — for we shall be like God. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {64BDC87C-E6A4-41D1-5138-1C755234CE98} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/suffering/a922.html?app=1 "What is temporal suffering, however protracted, contrasted with eternal life? It is not worthy to be called suffering or to be esteemed meritorious." Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {66B11421-A37F-8939-5414-9D75720FCF2E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-importance-of-sanity/a921.html?app=1 It is not becoming of Christians to lead heathenish lives, as they have something nobler to do. They are to be occupied with the Word of God. Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {4B4553DC-6EAB-39F1-8544-26DD3D7AA5C3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/one-divine-majesty/a919.html?app=1 Those who would follow their reason in the things dealt with in the article of the Trinity, will reject the Word, and be defeated in their "wisdom." Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C3463243-3F2D-DC70-1CEB-ED3D28006A4C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/be-watchful/a917.html?app=1 The primitive church would assemble daily for prayer, morning and evening, and also at certain other appointed hours, and frequently entire nights. Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {D691EEC2-24E7-C91B-8265-8DCDF38F9024} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-spirits-work/a915.html?app=1 The Spirit, pouring into our hearts, makes us different beings, creatures who love and obey God. This is simply the manifestation of his work in the heart. Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {530ECD2C-FF3E-265C-3F34-58BC931034BF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-guide/a911.html?app=1 The Holy Spirit has comes to enlighten your hearts, so that you will understand the truth, and will call to remembrance all things of Christ. Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {00A44078-8228-E780-D811-F57C8E085E66} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-freed-heart/a913.html?app=1 May the Holy Spirit working through the Word convince you that the Father would have your heart free, at peace with him through faith in his Son. Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7CE421C7-DCBE-4476-15A9-1E9F2436450C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-schoolmaster/a910.html?app=1 Church is where it happens. What happens there but God's Spirit working through the read and preached Word? We avoid the assembly at our peril. Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3E98D93B-FE8F-3AEC-D746-41B2D286C9B4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-house-companion/a909.html?app=1 We are loved of God through Christ Jesus and enjoy his favor and grace, but also have the great promises of the Lord himself dwelling completely in us. Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {642169D2-5DCC-EC79-9041-66EBC6371B06} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/where-god-dwells/a908.html?app=1 Christ binds the church to his Word and dwells in the midst of those who gather for the teaching and preaching of it, and live under its rule. Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A18DAEB3-C7BE-5B6A-53A0-EE5ACA9EDA09} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/do-not-despair/a907.html?app=1 Do not judge things according to feelings but keep to the Word and the comfort of preaching which the Holy Spirit gives to distressed consciences. Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {995540E6-664D-2369-B17F-7E360C82DB15} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/teaching-our-hearts-to-believe/a906.html?app=1 The office of the Holy Spirit is, namely, to invest the treasure — Christ and all he has, to enfold him in your heart so that Christ Jesus may be your own. Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {24DD63D2-4C42-EAE0-E180-3F26F92A0006} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-true-church-of-christ/a905.html?app=1 The Church is not known by the name on the sign or external appearance but those who have real knowledge of Christ in his Word and promises. Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {14DF5B06-1874-DE61-300A-766DBC187A94} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/suffering/a904.html?app=1 Why does God permit his own to suffer? In order to subdue the free will, that we should accustom ourselves to build alone upon Christ. Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {908A6E5D-D188-5574-9288-2F1166EF7D9A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-implanted-word/a903.html?app=1 "Take heed to accept in purity and to maintain with patience the Word so graciously and richly given you by God without effort or merit on your part." Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {199AFCE0-B8B1-93E1-EE8C-BAEC3557FC45} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-spirit-of-a-lifetime/a902.html?app=1 The Lord suffers a lifetime with us, giving us the opportunity to repent and believe in his Savior. But he will suffer no longer than a limited lifetime. Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C32CB515-4F0A-8FB4-7141-781AB9BC8C7E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-witness/a901.html?app=1 May you hear the Word of God and believe because the Spirit has born witness with your spirit that this word comes from God, and is for you. Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {04DA47B7-C395-31F9-8261-6EA3C521E478} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/asking-properly/a900.html?app=1 May you know the will of the Father so that you may ask rightly in the Son's name, knowing that you receive for Christ's sake, not by your own merit. Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {C160700F-C8FE-2C60-0A8A-EFC5A8E3D4F0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-offense-of-the-gospel/a863.html?app=1 The gospel is a teaching that gives the world nothing but offense — a thing unworthy to be heard or tolerated because it is not worldly, but spiritual. Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {50BA974E-2CFB-3AD1-11CE-26CE2881AA06} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-sign-of-a-christian/a861.html?app=1 The great and powerful work of all true Christians is, by God’s grace, to keep the faith so that they may have a clear conscience and peace before God. Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {84BCAC3A-93E7-78D3-C0D1-F996ACA6FCD0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-mission-of-faith/a862.html?app=1 Those who would believe and preach the gospel, must cast aside all works supposed to make one just and holy , and allow nothing to remain but faith. Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {EEA23426-F724-45FA-6A63-43AC3C1495FD} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/knowing-christ/a860.html?app=1 Christ as a gift makes you a Christian and nourishes your faith, but Christ as an example moves your faith to do good works for your neighbor. Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {81A531B6-F242-1E51-F913-2115863F83D8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/two-kingdoms/a859.html?app=1 In the gospel is an entirely different, a spiritual government, that exists alone in the Word, by which sinners are convicted and Christ proclaimed. Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {456D5417-B54F-6099-EF4A-3BDC762D7482} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/hidden-strength/a858.html?app=1 Christ hung upon the cross that we might learn how deeply strength lies hidden under weakness, and learn to know his strength in our weakness. Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {8BF11CE1-967D-31DE-9A48-6FFF662510B7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/vbs-mary-martha-and-many-faithful-women/a3007.html?app=1 Download Registration Form June 20–22, Friday, Saturday & Sunday of games, singing, crafts, Bible teaching, snacks, and lunches Friday, 5:30 registration, then 6 to 8 Saturday, 9:30am registration, then 10am to 3pm, ... Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {B472F8E0-6524-90CF-6123-4AAD82C7F7A9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/christians-by-birth/a857.html?app=1 We are joint heirs with Christ by believing on the same Lord Jesus Christ alone and the promises of his word and the Father's grace are ours. Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {48725BAD-4BBE-FEA2-D298-108ED821FE68} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/resurrection-blessings/a849.html?app=1 Cling to the great and glorious gifts of the resurrection: the gospel, holy Baptism, the power of the Holy Spirit, and comfort in all adversity. Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E254A4C7-AEF8-F072-DB66-0AC0266EED3A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/clinging-faith/a848.html?app=1 When despairing, our works must immediately sink out of sight, leaving no help or victory except the faith that clings to the word of Christ the Lord. Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A23559B1-1142-2B07-C554-B7D06CA0DBD9} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/election/a845.html?app=1 It is not for human beings to say what is right or wrong, whether an act or ruling is divine, for that is left to God alone who elects those who believe. Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7F459491-A328-C562-6703-B43E648BCF13} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/pure-grace-and-mercy/a841.html?app=1 Out of pure grace and mercy, God elects, as beneficiaries of his goodness, the poor, and wretched, and unworthy, who acknowledge themselves guilty. Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A4F10852-FEAD-810F-6468-BE3739F47414} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-poor-man/a838.html?app=1 We are to remember the poor, as the apostles urged, but there is another poor Man whom the whole world would forget, while Christians remember. Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {3A0DB02F-1D73-971E-0ABC-A63AC1F13EC7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-shepherd-calls/a835.html?app=1 Christ's kingdom abounds in grace and mercy for he is a comforting, friendly shepherd, who tenderly invites, and all people to come to him. Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {165FE4F8-9814-1575-0FAE-EDEA5124F1C5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/sure-hope/a832.html?app=1 If you believe that Christ died to save you from all evil, and hold fast to that word, you will find it so certain and sure that no creature can overthrow it. Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {E1A50942-2B76-2437-56B9-36721F2B1792} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-risen-life/a828.html?app=1 Through Christ's death, you are redeemed from sin and death, raised to an imperishable life you cannot yet perceive in yourselves except through faith. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {77ABE7A0-EB5F-33A2-F25E-862FEB35EA4E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faith-is-the-victory/a827.html?app=1 We do not have to win any battles, but only to keep the victory that has already been won, by holding onto faith in Christ and his cross. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {BF391B4B-3976-E90B-1887-769D668294D2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/fellowship-with-the-weak/a824.html?app=1 To keep company with the "weak Christ" is the highest wisdom on earth, and a second is like it, to bear with his weak followers, the church. Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {EA61211E-A027-E914-E118-EC2BBE64752D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-gentle-rebuke-of-the-greatest-sin/a822.html?app=1 Unbelief is the greatest sin there is, for it cares not for God or at least, cares little for him who is to be loved with one's whole heart and entire being. Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A0EEFB59-9C2E-5AAC-1E7E-BD99BDC994D6} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/known-by-the-shepherd/a821.html?app=1 The true church is not known by its government or its name but because it is known by its Shepherd and knows him, having faith in him alone. Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {CD985577-3AE3-B04D-1677-5383CD64E128} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/believing-through-the-spirit/a818.html?app=1 Scripture teaches that we cannot be saved by our own works, but through hearing and believing by the power of his Spirit that Jesus is the Christ . Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A8AD3A3D-8C39-C1B1-A78A-96E6C6ACDDA7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/raised-to-new-life/a815.html?app=1 There is a great Day coming when we will be raised bodily from the dead, but in the meantime, we are being raised spiritually into a better existence. Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {9FB8F7B2-70E6-3789-4358-1E5FDB8D7586} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/an-everlasting-covenant/a812.html?app=1 Christ cannot remain in death — although he may suffer death by reason of his human nature — yet he must of his own power rise from the dead. Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {7AC4C627-E214-5189-2DED-2CD563EF4D22} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/believing-the-judgment/a809.html?app=1 The world, seeing no wrong with itself, does not receive one part of Christ's word, reproval, and so, seeing no need of it, cannot receive his grace. Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {A2B7DEFB-F2C8-64D4-E51C-F1300DBDCFB3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-righteousness-of-christians/a806.html?app=1 Christ is the righteousness of Christians before God, going to the Father, that is, suffering and rising for us, and thereby reconciling us to the Father. Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700 {8EBD1FED-1A34-0B62-55A1-5AFDF4FDE3D1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/trunk-‘r-treat/a1398.html?app=1 Our annual Trunk 'r Treat tradition provides Halloween candy, hotdogs, and hayrides in a safe environment for hundreds of local children.  Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700 {1CB08FE1-F592-5662-B46A-8FE127ABFFD5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/we-are-the-lords/a430.html?app=1 We may go about living our lives with good, Christian courage, knowing that we belong to the Lord. He has prepared us for both life and death. Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {EED0A65E-31B9-6EFD-EB4C-64BEB5BA6AA5} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/in-the-beginning/a429.html?app=1 What was in the beginning — even before the beginning — and where did it all come from is the subject of John's and Luther's writings today. Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {5FF0B67D-0992-1D7B-70FC-5F9DB48E4E0E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-just-reward/a428.html?app=1 God will repay the wicked for their persecution of Christians, and he will reward Christians, though not for the reasons many think. Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {6116B5A5-D609-1408-E585-31856D4A93F2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-faith-of-shepherds/a427.html?app=1 Do we believe the Word of God because of the revelation or because of its messenger, because it is God's Word or because of the preacher? Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {C355AB97-1C09-BC23-7026-B377DF1050D2} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-need-of-the-gospel/a426.html?app=1 We are not so pious as we imagine ourselves to be. Take care of your self-regard and pious pride, for the gospel grows in the pasture of confession. Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {B50DA74A-DD55-6243-4AD7-8AF39C614D05} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/grace-working-in-nature/a425.html?app=1 Jesus took on our nature so that, through faith in him, we may be given his nature, and be made right to be with him in eternity. Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {C6AB82E2-E913-87B9-1980-0EE55E1C3D4D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/for-you/a423.html?app=1 The great joy of this day is that your Father has given the gift of his Son, along with the gifts of his Spirit and eternal life ... to you. His gift is for you. Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {386C3E21-D9CE-B1B9-ED43-E1A8B06B8568} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/behold/a422.html?app=1 Jesus is the only one who can remove your sins, and make you right with the Father. Behold, the Lamb of God who has taken away the sin of the world. Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {F5138228-CE67-A3B8-2952-6963491FD1CB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-last-message/a421.html?app=1 Our lives, like John the Baptist's life and ministry, should direct our family, friends, and neighbors to Christ and his gospel. Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {FA3BEB64-F0E4-A2FD-A1CE-5539542A51ED} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-word-angel/a420.html?app=1 God's Word-angel made manifest the sin and religion that would hinder the coming grace of his Christ, the Messiah, the long-awaited one. Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {7D1925EF-C477-B286-BA3F-5E44C9C630D4} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/believe-and-rejoice/a419.html?app=1 Until the heart believes in God, it is not possible to rejoice in him. But for the believer, both rejoicing and peace are possible. Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {5EA4AAC9-9ED3-3BEA-3D5F-D7D5C1FF0998} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/armor-of-light/a418.html?app=1 It is not enough to put off the works of darkness; one must put on the armor of light. Without the light of faith, even works we think good are not. Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {04282CAB-3B1A-C67D-57A4-072E2B5D4828} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/forgiveness-of-sins/a511.html?app=1 Do not run for the bushes. Do not deny. Confess! For we have been given a Savior and so, we believe in the forgiveness of sins. Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {20F2726D-B0E0-176D-F530-98AD5C4D24F7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-offense-of-faith/a496.html?app=1 Have we forgotten that in order to be saved, we must have faith in Christ, trusting in God above our own works of religious devotion? Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {128B48CF-9996-85E6-5C88-08809EDBD220} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/sober-judgment/a493.html?app=1 We must consider ourselves with sound and sober judgment, not thinking much of our piety. There is always room for improvement in the Christian life. Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0800 {B04BFBCB-27C8-2469-DE93-5ACDFC194DDE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/christmas-greeting/a424.html?app=1 A note of thanksgiving on Christmas Day from Mark and Susan, who are grateful to be among the folks called St. Paul's Lutheran Church Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {FAA4753C-D25B-E00C-8A8B-31BAA844DEAA} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/glad-tidings/a417.html?app=1 Good news is received best by those poor folks who need glad tidings the most. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {87BB2154-E96C-3757-801A-6EE57A7CC510} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/spiritual-day/a416.html?app=1 The darkness of all that is not of the gospel is behind us. The spiritual, gospel day of Christ lies ahead. Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {42DD12DE-C07A-87C6-FA82-1AE19D7DE873} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-peace-of-the-cross/a415.html?app=1 Even when you are not at peace with others—or even with yourself—the peace of God is yours. Be content in Christ through faith. Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {8F1C051B-F620-A43B-F793-B07406B5AAF0} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/prayer-over-anxiety/a414.html?app=1 Many things happen throughout the day that should drive you to prayer. So, pray. Your prayers are pleasing to God. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {FE15095D-7662-345F-3A84-3F6316D46021} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-outworking-of-faith/a412.html?app=1 The only thing God demands is that we exercise faith in him. Yet there is a second, similar command that we love our neighbors like we love God. Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {B5CB15F8-AB51-D4DD-6EE2-2ED8A217AFBE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-offense-of-christ/a411.html?app=1 Christ is the only way to heaven, to eternal life with God. Blessed are you if this truth about Christ Jesus does not offend you. Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {39833D31-12B3-0AB2-53C0-4A3CA201A7EF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/in-gods-hands/a410.html?app=1 The season of Advent has us reconsider how all things will change, and that we must trust God with everything we hold dear, even our souls. Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {E0C0E37E-5742-2355-275F-A789D5F6835E} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/grace-power-and-glory/a409.html?app=1 God and report what you have seen: the grace, power, and glory of Christ Jesus. Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {E65A147B-A9D9-94F2-1D80-AAD69BA453B3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-seed-of-faith/a407.html?app=1 The communion of saints, the Israel of God, all believe in Messiah, one, the Messiah who was to come and the other, the same Messiah who has come. Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {1126556C-8AE0-84EA-A09D-A8CA2FD8C95A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-armor-of-light/a406.html?app=1 Awake from unbelief so that you may recognize the blessings of God, and become a blessing to your neighbor. Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {A7B278E9-6B89-6586-7D1A-21C5EFF23A4C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/thy-kingdom-come/a405.html?app=1 The advent of Christ is the redemption of all who believe. It is not for their destruction but for the destruction of their sin. Thy kingdom come! Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {584D574B-EA56-0ACF-7C8A-D85E7425916C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-word-for-christians-only/a402.html?app=1 This is a difficult word for the world, in its comfort and ease, to hear and believe, and as such, is meant for Christians alone to hear. Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {519625F6-C8CE-60FC-C839-D3971C52CE7D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/take-note-and-hold-fast/a401.html?app=1 Many will doubt, but—though the heavens be shaken—let us hold fast to the gospel. Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {DB497FAF-336C-30B1-6966-464C4D736035} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/signs/a400.html?app=1 As all these signs appear, especially the sign of an agonized conscience, and then appear again and again, where can may you flee for help? Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {CABD4C85-B075-B03E-B1F0-66563FADDFCB} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-fullness-of-grace/a399.html?app=1 The Father asks you to believe what seems empty of all human wisdom, so that you may have the fullness of his grace. Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {E2B611D6-8F2F-EBD0-7FCD-F37D31AEB922} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-spiritual-kingdom/a398.html?app=1 The Evangelist corrects the "blindness and false notions of those who seek bodily and temporal blessings in Christ and his gospel." Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {109B2B75-CB10-C929-5D2E-42C698585F6A} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-nature-of-faith/a397.html?app=1 "The nature of faith is that it does not judge nor reason by what it sees, but by what it hears. It depends upon the Word alone..." Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {616EC3EB-FC96-3D3E-B8B3-9FBEC536EC00} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-exact-opposite/a396.html?app=1 You did not love God so much that he came into this world. He loved the world so much that he came to save you. You do not find God. He finds you. Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {05816CD6-73A6-4410-D657-136B5A78742B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-christian-life/a395.html?app=1 Faith gives Christ to you; loves gives you to your neighbor; and hope keeps faith and love alive in the midst of suffering and trials. Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {04F4A975-D90F-791D-11BF-72B93F5C833B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-intervening-force/a394.html?app=1 Our religious devotion and piety have nothing to do with it; it is the intervening power of Christ alone that will raise us to glory on that Day. Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {DB6227E6-4C49-AD35-794B-93D45F4B1A62} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/rest-assured/a393.html?app=1 Christians will suffer for the Faith, but they are promised eternal reward for their patient witness to Christ Jesus and his Word. Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {E03AB2A2-1653-376E-2F39-199986E7B284} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-unexpected/a392.html?app=1 There have been signs and will always be signs, and so, the return of the Christ will be unexpected. Your redemption is drawing nearer. Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {3203C2B6-B250-6BC7-C862-FFD821482CED} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/spiritual-knowledge/a391.html?app=1 Spiritual knowledge is knowing the will of the Father is that everyone who sees his Son and believes in him will have eternal life. Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {D3F6A57F-002D-2460-AAF1-0A89F830201D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/overcoming-unrest/a390.html?app=1 Christians should be content with their own calling: mother or father, electrician or teacher, pastor or acolyte. Be content and follow Jesus. Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {EAFA6312-2767-4280-7F59-3DB385FD6A49} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/stand-firm/a389.html?app=1 Be alert, eager every day to learn of God's Word and will, so that you may stand firm in your faith until the end. Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {30F572C5-2FBA-0992-4DBF-B3A4B0AC9D5C} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-kingdomfor-you/a388.html?app=1 We await Christ's coming, and with it, a kingdom prepared for those who believe in him. So, you may wait and pray confidently, expectantly. Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {AE737AF9-837A-2397-675B-7B6644195796} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/moving-words/a387.html?app=1 If these thoughts and words do not move you, nothing else will. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {671651CA-9A08-1012-48BA-2C988EB98A4B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/successful-failure/a386.html?app=1 When we believe in Christ Jesus, we are forgiven our sins and through the Spirit of God, his grace and truth begin to grow in us, giving us the desire to keep God's law. Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {A93E2518-380A-9762-CE93-0AE769D93808} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/what-the-gospel-is/a384.html?app=1 The gospel is the announcement that God demands we turn from our sins and offers forgiveness only through Christ Jesus. Sun, 21 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {A98E1B57-C312-099B-2A50-F9937A681881} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-treasure/a385.html?app=1 The Christian cannot rely upon reason or human wisdom but must always turn to God's Word and ask him to guide. Sat, 20 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {E34199AC-17BD-AD24-D9FB-8092C439A566} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/time-for-the-word/a383.html?app=1 The times would draw us away from God's Word and will, so we must make the time to hear him. Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {A0D58231-88C7-8AB3-0ABD-90673065FB06} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-reassuring-promise/a382.html?app=1 Noah is reassured of God's plan of an ark and flood, as baptism reassures us that God will carry us through the flood of sin and death. Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {7B70ECEC-7957-0E96-6464-F1F9631BD7BE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/church-unity/a381.html?app=1 Taking up your neighbor's burdens, including his sins and imperfections, as if they were your own brings honor to God. Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {7B416522-497A-2117-6A1B-6EC11DF1BD50} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/proud-sin/a379.html?app=1 May God preserve us and grant that we may escape from the temptation to willfulness and haughty sin. Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {7664EC01-68B4-96AB-6F9C-199B38A67F7B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-righteousness-of-faith/a380.html?app=1 The righteousness of faith teaches us patience, the patience to wait until that Day, confident that Christ's further grace of eternal life awaits those who trust in him. Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {48EBC458-138D-F4B5-AB70-BDA33F002B01} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-great-need/a378.html?app=1 Of course you are not worthy of God's grace, but do you need what he supplies? Do not deny your Lord his will to bless your need. Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {F26DB73B-2BEC-86BC-C157-7475E0B95CFF} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/standing-amid-the-falling-ruins/a377.html?app=1 Our trust is not in the prosperity of the world around us but of the hope within us. The righteous stand unruffled in the falling ruins. Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {B823BEA8-392A-1A50-A1CA-095BD40EEA81} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faith-requires-fear/a376.html?app=1 We must not be sure of our faith, but be confident in the one who supplies us faith. We cannot instigate or maintain faith, so we must fear God and ask him daily to keep us in that faith. Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {53D68DC5-808E-4404-A79B-F2959A899C33} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/how-god-reigns/a372.html?app=1 The rule of the nations will not be accomplished through warfare but by the will of the Father. We too, are ruled in the same manner, by the will of God. Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {6C2EDB4A-299A-2E48-A845-8B9785895F09} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-saving-word/a371.html?app=1 Without the working of God's Spirit through the Word of God—the revelation of who he is and what he has done for us—no one would come to saving faith. Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {22BB2D7C-7F66-C7E7-9354-CEC1F7069B26} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/daily-use/a370.html?app=1 Christians should make daily use of this book, as the life to come is not evident. Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {F5C5DA34-C8CB-BB12-47AB-1F6E6E2334B3} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-higher-plane/a369.html?app=1 "This is a pure and strong faith, that requires the individual to cast away all sense, understanding and reason, and sink himself into one little word, be satisfied with it and feel secure in it." Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0800 {E1A7E81A-216E-1FEB-9830-FF06AF3CE8ED} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/storming-the-devils-kingdom/a367.html?app=1 In Holy Communion, "the only agent at work is the spoken Word," so that Christ alone may be remembered and honored. Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {3EA44F8A-E2C8-37AA-D8ED-8FDEE6712E16} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-anchor-of-the-heart/a366.html?app=1 While the world thinks itself the victor, God laughs, knowing the outcome. His King is triumphant. Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {565778C8-A57A-B70F-ED69-DBD9363B9425} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/trust/a365.html?app=1 "The sum of the matter is this, that those persons are saved who place their trust solely in God, not in their works." Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {218C181B-AB4C-9E6C-7C2F-E6617B122BD8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/are-you-covered/a363.html?app=1 Are you clothed in Christ? You better look like Jesus on that Day. Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {172F44E7-D0EC-BF8C-6612-A1B27917682B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/our-single-service/a358.html?app=1 What service can a Christian render that is acceptable to God? What service may be given by a Council president, pope, a pastor, a bishop, a laywoman? Thanksgiving and praise is all God expects, and we may all give him this gift. It does not ... Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {281F8949-09D6-E0A2-D274-E2A11A7FBAF7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-comfort-of-baptism/a355.html?app=1 Baptism is a comfort to Christians. It reminds us that God loves us and forgives us. Avail yourself of his promises daily, confessing your sin, and believing he forgives, for Christ's sake. Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {AEA004E4-6FA2-5316-A61F-A54C953FF8AE} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/true-love/a349.html?app=1 Christ Jesus does not desire your works, whether religion, devotion, Bible reading, vigils, tithes, service on committees, going to church—none of that. He desires you, as a groom desires his bride. True love desires its beloved and nothing ... Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {F83204C9-F6F6-0407-4021-71419EC69718} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/commend-it-to-god/a348.html?app=1 Some people are preoccupied with harassing Christians. Yet they are really bent against the Lord. So, commend them to the Lord, then live your life faithfully, doing those things God has given you to do each day. And today, may you have a blessed ... Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {C12B9608-848F-3F66-45EB-2C02A3C1F872} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/be-careful-of-your-way/a347.html?app=1 Just because you go to church or serve on a committee does not mean that you highly regarded by God. Many is the pastor or council president or bishop whom God does not regard. God regards those who walk by faith in Christ's virtue, not those who ... Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {650A1095-5B5C-7902-A874-D313DED6B338} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/it-had-to-be/a346.html?app=1 God has given us the perfect gift, one which we can never purchase for ourselves. There isn't enough money, virtue, or merit to make us able to walk with God in glory. So, God sent himself to make satisfaction for our sin. God has appeased ... Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {CC855399-F89C-193A-A91D-5E1F04B78A6D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/christian-unity/a345.html?app=1 To what lengths should we go to keep Christian unity? Squabbling over music, translations, and other stylistic matters can divide a church. We do not have to be right—but we do have to be forbearing. There is always discord but we are called to ... Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {4E97E0FC-E462-714F-366E-314361B6762D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-sin-of-ingratitude/a344.html?app=1 We get pretty upset with people who repay our kindnesses with silence, with indifference, with ingratitude. Yet God has given us the ultimate gift—for which we cannot give enough thanks. Are we grateful? Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {A233E9F9-4FC1-F03A-7F31-17FDD7C7198D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/how-to-correct-the-problem/a351.html?app=1 We are all aware of people who have been ungrateful for things we have done for them. Children have to be reminded to say "thank you," but adults can suffer from the same lack of gratitude. But we too may be ungrateful to God for what he has ... Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {76ECDB63-5C71-86CA-D751-D1EC9D15A097} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-unity-of-the-spirit/a352.html?app=1 The unity of the Church does not consist in what we do. Certainly, we must do all we can to maintain "the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" but in the end, it is up to that same Spirit of God. In those matters we cannot fix, we should ... Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {A9E9F2A8-BAAA-D226-BFF4-7DBFDC1FA2CA} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/let-it-shine/a353.html?app=1 Showiness has nothing to do with Christianity. But showing Christ in what we do and say is an important aspect of Christianity. This display does not save us, but serves as a witness to others. Let his light shine! Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {DCF46778-E262-373C-E544-0D0521BA4A7B} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/faultlessly-in-faith/a354.html?app=1 The newest convert can go forward faultlessly in faith. This does not mean that they do not sin, any more than seasoned Christians are sinless. But all we sinners go forth with faith in Christ, that he will will preserve us to himself until that ... Sat, 23 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {11D60D14-1469-5BD4-4005-990112D480D1} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/a-contrary-doctrine/a356.html?app=1 What greater prosperity can you have than to keep your faith? The person who keeps faith until the end, prospers most, for she receives eternal life. Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {EFB60624-85BD-E4D6-81F7-14B4DF880514} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/you-cannot-pay-your-debt/a359.html?app=1 Sin leaves us in debt to God. We cannot pay our debt to him, yet he sent his Son to pay our debt in full. Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {43EF099F-2C37-E09A-CBA2-51AA5F8003D7} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/hes-tricky/a361.html?app=1 The attack comes from a level we do not expect. The devil urges us to depend upon ourselves; the temptation is to rely upon ourselves. Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {8B7CAEF8-9A63-66D3-3CBA-06D234C32CC8} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/the-promise-made-sure-through-suffering/a362.html?app=1 The Lord redeems the life of those who take refuge in him, not those who take refuge in themselves. Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {4C4252E2-F2ED-A36C-4BA4-8EF993D1F53D} https://stpaulslutheran.church/all-content/restored-light-and-understanding-in-scripture/a364.html?app=1 To believe in Christ alone for salvation is true knowledge. It is a right knowledge that leads to correct prayer within the will of God. Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700 {09AF49EE-0947-C0CD-62A3-A22240127001}