Christ Jesus came to save us — not to make us feel better but to bring us into a corrected and eternal relationship with God.
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A person is saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ's work on the cross, not by adding their own works to his.
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Why would put God to the test by placing the yoke of the law on the neck of disciples that neither our predecessors nor we have been able to bear?
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In the Nicene Creed, we confess a straightforward denial of the Arian heresy: Jesus is “not made.” The Son is begotten, not created.
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Under the devil's direction the world persecutes the gospel and would nail again Christ, the Son of God, to the cross although he gave himself for the world.
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Wondering about conditions at church, whether we will have worship on a Sunday, or if activities at church are canceled during the week?
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There is no other God to be truer than, so “true God of true God” simply emphasizes the doctrine that Jesus is not a created being but is truly God.
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Sometimes people want grace but then let go of it because they do not want Christ. They want to have the benefits of grace without being a follower of Jesus.
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The light that is God is generated by his glory. As he is by definition, “God of God,” he is by description, “Light of Light.”
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Jesus has always been God with the Father and Holy Spirit. Together, they are one God and Jesus is God of this Triune God.
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Christianity is not seasonal. It does not cool off. Faith does not become slack; it is constant. Have you left your faith at the altar or are you following Jesus?
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We are to abound in love with knowledge and discernment so that we may approve what is excellent, and be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.
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Christ was in the beginning as the creating Word. He was with God. And he was God. Christ Jesus is God, with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
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We confess that the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, forever one God, is the creator of all things, whether visible or unseen.
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There will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them.
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Paul and Luther deplored the fact that the happy condition of the church, secured by years of arduous labors, some lunatic might spoil in a moment.
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The Nicene Creed originated from a need to confront a false teaching by concisely and correctly teaching what the Scripture says about Jesus Christ.
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"Are we there yet?" You have heard this childlike question many times. We too, should be like little children, eager to be at our eternal home with God.
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"Are we there yet?" You have heard this childlike question many times. We too, should be like little children, eager to be at our eternal home with God.
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Imitators of God forgive others, even when they sin against them. They give the weak a hand up when they fail and fall.
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Resurrection is a mystery but we confess our belief that in the flash of an instant, we will be changed. We will be made otherwise, altered, glorified.
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Paul was astonished that the Galatians were deserting Jesus for the law again, so that the onus for salvation was once again upon themselves.
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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.
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One becomes rightly related to God by becoming a friend of Jesus. So, when he speaks the “follow me” to your heart ... follow.
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In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. —1 John 4:10
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Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
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In the creed, we confess a catholic Church, meaning the entire communion of believers throughout time who hold to orthodox or correct doctrine.
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In the creed, we confess a catholic Church, meaning the entire communion of believers throughout time who hold to orthodox or correct doctrine.
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There is no one who does good—no, not one. All have fallen short of the glory of God, and their own "goodness" will in no way make up the deficit.
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Christians believe that the Lord our God is one God yet three persons, or the Trinity, whom we name as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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God loves you, not because of your ability to not sin, but because Christ died for your sin. He loves you for Christ's sake, not for the sake of your piety.
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The Christian should be careful to live faithfully, yet not trust in her own righteousness but in Jesus who is coming soon to judge all who have lived.
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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?
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Tell the devil that Christ Jesus has given himself for our sins, that by his sacrifice he has taken away your sins along with those of the whole world.
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We need not be concerned over our future. It is secure in Christ, so we are freed and empowered to live the risen and ascended life now.
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We need not be concerned over our future. It is secure in Christ, so we are freed and empowered to live the risen and ascended life now.
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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.
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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.
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If the devil tells you that you will be damned, tell him. “I will fly to Christ who gave himself for my sins." Remind yourself of the Father's favorable will.
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Christ, the Son of God, was not given for the righteous or the holy, but for sinners that they may be holy in the righteousness of Christ alone.
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Like Jacob, who simply believed the report of his son being still alive, we confess that on the third day Christ Jesus rose from the dead and lives.
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We celebrate the Ascension; we should observe the “Descension” too. Jesus Christ did descend into hell but it could not hold him.
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It is not your spiritual might that saves you, any more than it is your spiritual weakness that condemns you. It is Christ who saves you in spite of you.
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Jesus really died. He is not dead, but he once died, crucified on a Roman cross. This was no trickery or vision; the incarnate God physically died.
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God loves you when you are at your worst, so we see that sin cannot harm those who believe in Christ, because he has overcome sin by his death.
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Jesus did not sleep, as we say, but truly died a real, physical death so that those who believe may be raised from death to a real and bodily life.
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"If our sins could be removed by our own efforts, what need was there for the Son of God to be given for them?"
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Jesus suffered in our place a literally excruciating death in order to redeem the world from its lost condition, again literally justifying humanity to God.
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"You are established in this belief that Christ is very God because he gives grace and peace, gifts which only God can create and bestow.”
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Jesus did not have to suffer under Pilate's authority but for the will of his Father, he suffered that the sins of the world be covered by his sacrifice.
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Augustine said, "Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” The hard stuff is believed through God's grace.
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