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.
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Day 180 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 86–89 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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By definition, confirmation and extreme unction, or last rites, are not sacraments. They do not contain the clear command of God in Scripture, nor do they have a promise of his grace.
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Day 179 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 80–85 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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We find in God’s gracious commands, in the sacraments, the essence of New Testament. For these things must be received in faith. We must come before the Word with soft, believing hearts.
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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.
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The sacraments are not merely indicators of who we are, in the sense of someone thinking that since a group baptizes in water, and ceremonially eats bread and drinks wine, they must be Christians.
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Day 178 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 78–79 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The sacraments are not merely indicators of who we are, in the sense of someone thinking that since a group baptizes in water, and ceremonially eats bread and drinks wine, they must be Christians.
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Day 177 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 74–77 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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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.
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There are times when it is difficult to believe that God really loves us. When we sin, we sense an estrangement with God that must somehow be overcome. The instinct is to make an offering...
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Day 176 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 70–73 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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There are no confessed sins that Christ Jesus cannot or will not forgive. Therefore there is no confessed sin for which a minister of the gospel cannot and should not give absolution.
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Day 175 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 66–69 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Day 174 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 58–65 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The purpose of the keys involves both peace and terror. For those who believe in Christ and confess their sins, there is the comfort of knowing that they are forgiven because Christ alone is God’s satisfaction.
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"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."
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Where is it written? Where do the Scriptures teach that we pay the price of freedom from eternal death? How do our punishments replace the excelling merit of Christ’s satisfaction for sin?
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Day 173 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 51–57 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"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."
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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.”
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In order for us to produce good fruits, we must depend upon God’s promises. We must have faith in him. Otherwise, we would eventually despair of doing much, if any, good.
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Day 172 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 46–50 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Does God say to do something? Then it must be done. You shall love the Lord your God, and your neighbor as yourself. These are not options.
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Day 171 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 40–45 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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You may have all of the outward signs of a Christian but if you neglect the greatest commandment, you are headed for trouble.
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Day 170 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 36–39 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Repentance means a changed mind. We might think of it as a change of heart. It follows that a real change of heart would include different fruits or results in that person’s life.
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Day 169 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 32–35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Day 168 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 26–31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God will do what he must for the good of those he loves — even if it means inflicting them with some corrective troubles. Perhaps the psalmist’s bones were not actually broken but...
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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.
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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.
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It has long been known that sparing the rod creates spoiled brats. Just like good, earthly parents, God sometimes punishes us so that we will not spoil.
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Day 167 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 21–25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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!
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Day 166 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 17:1–20:9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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When a child says, “I’m sorry,” sometimes a parent responds, “Then act like it.” This is no different than the relationship that a child of God has with the Father.
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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.
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Day 165 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 9:1–16:11 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Works of repentance are required of us. They are not non-compulsory things that we can use to purchase our redemption or righteousness.
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God would have us occupy this world as guests, striving after an eternal kingdom, abstaining from lusts, maintaining a godly life of good works.
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Day 164 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 1:1–8:9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Saul of Tarsus was a scholar, presumably with good eyesight, able to read scrolls and manuscripts. Then he was blinded by God on the Damascus road.
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