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.
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Day 131 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 6:1–8:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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What should shine forth from the Church above all other things? Buildings? Traditions? Fund raisers? The pastor? Denominational programs? The youth group? Style of worship?
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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.
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Day 130 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 2:1–5:14 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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No pastor, bishop, priest, or pope has the right to determine rules for apprehending eternal life when those rules have no authority from the gospel.
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In the gospel is an entirely different, a spiritual government, that exists alone in the Word, by which sinners are convicted and Christ proclaimed.
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Day 129 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 28:1 – 2 Chronicles 1:17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Reformation slogan, sola Scriptura, should be kept close in our thoughts. Much doubt and anxiety may be avoided, if God’s Word is our rule of faith and practice.
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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.
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Day 128 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 25:1–27:34 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If our righteousness must exceed that of religious experts, then what are we to do? We are to understand what righteousness actually is.
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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.
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Day 127 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 22:1–24:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Defense of the Augsburg Confession concludes with a word on the power of the church. It insists that the church was corrupt and that this was harmful to the people in the church.
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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.
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Day 126 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 18:1–21:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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These older widows had promised to not remarry so that they could receive assistance from the church. Remarrying was seen as breaking that “oath” — the same word translated as “faith.”
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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.
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Day 125 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 15:1–17:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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These older widows had promised to not remarry so that they could receive assistance from the church. Remarrying was seen as breaking that “oath” — the same word translated as “faith.”
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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.
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Day 124 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 12:1–14:17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is clear enough from the context that these widows whom Paul spoke of were simply women the Church supported unless they remarried.
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Out of pure grace and mercy, God elects, as beneficiaries of his goodness, the poor, and wretched, and unworthy, who acknowledge themselves guilty.
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Day 123 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 9:1–11:47 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We need all the help we can get. No one would deny this to be true. But if the help obscures Christ, it is not help; it is a great evil.
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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.
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Day 122 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 7:1–8:40 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We have a shared promise through Christ since we are all sons of God through faith in him. As such, all believers are joint heirs of the promise made to Christ, the Seed of Abraham.
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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.
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Day 121 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 6:1–81 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is remarkably easy to take a verse or two from the Bible and construct a doctrine or a whole way of life. The safeguard to doing this, or falling prey to its adherents, is to, as we say, “be in the Word” — all of God’s Word.
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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.
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Day 120 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 3:1-5:26 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Our works, actions, and lifestyles do not make us right with God. Jesus Christ justifies us before God. This is why faith alone in the grace of God alone merits his forgiveness and salvation.
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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.
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Day 119 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:55 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Sometimes people make bad decisions. We all do this but one wrong decision should not necessitate a lifetime of poor choices or actions.
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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.
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Day 118 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 23:1–25:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Be sure that your commitments depend upon God’s promises, power, and faithfulness, instead of your own. Be doubly certain that you do not imagine keeping your promises is the way to salvation.
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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.
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Day 117 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 20:1–22:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Religious acting can take the form of doing worship, that is, not worshiping at all. This often takes the form of a ritual that does not come from the heart.
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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.
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Day 116 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 18:1–19:37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Word of God must be proclaimed with clarity, putting useless arguments aside in favor of the gospel. The best way to accomplish this is to cut a straight path through the Scripture.
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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.
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Day 116 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 15:1–17:41 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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