Only God’s Word will abide. Our idle arguments will wither, our fine words and reasoning fall with the flowers at the end of summer. As they wither and fall, God’s glory will appear in full bloom before us.
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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.
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Day 365 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Revelation 20:1–22:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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As stated when writing about the Distinction of Meats, Jovinian was a monk and ascetic in the fourth century who wrote against celibacy and other monastic traditions. He praised the virtues of marriage and was therefore, of course, branded a heretic.
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Day 364 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Revelation 17:1–19:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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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 him despite wickedness and persecution and other troubles in this life.
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If one cannot in his own power do what God expects, that is, if he continues to sin, then he should do what God says is the answer. It is foolhardy to do what people say ought to be done when God has provided a different solution.
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Day 362 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Revelation 13:1–16:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"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 the Word."
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What makes a sinner pure? Flagellations? Fastings? Offerings? Are these the things that King David did in order to be clean after his sin with Bathsheba? King David well understood who did the cleansing.
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Day 361 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Revelation 9:1–12:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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This long argument against the demonic dogma of enforced and perpetual celibacy may seem to some as being overdone. Yet these very same problems persist 500 years later.
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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 needy now, you would not have done it for Jesus and his family then.
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Day 360 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Revelation 4:1–8:13 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Wittenberg Reformers knew something about peddlers of religion. The hucksters of indulgences plagued the lands, bilking folks out of scarce money. There were other charlatans too, who traded wholesale in religion, exchanging false promises for the blessings of life.
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Day 359 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Revelation 1:1–3:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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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.
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Day 358 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 John 1:1–Jude 25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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What is one to do when all attempts have been made to reason with people who have willfully gone astray? There are people — yes, even in the churches — who willfully ignore Scripture, insisting instead on their own bent reasoning.
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Day 357 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 John 1:1–5:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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The devil’s lies brought sin and death into the world. Knowledge of this should provide godly people with ample courage to stand for the truth. Part of that truth is that God uses both self-discipline and marriage as means of faithfulness.
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Day 356 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Peter 1:1–3:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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A further edition of the Lutheran Confessions adds, “God has now so blinded the world that adultery and fornication are permitted almost without punishment; on the contrary, punishment is inflicted on account of marriage.”
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Day 355 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Peter 1:1–5:14 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"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.
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We do not like to think of a wrathful God. Yet a holy God is by default, angry at times. His anger is stirred by willful disobedience, by those who think they know better than he does.
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Day 354 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read James 1:1–5:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Those who prohibit marriage, enforcing celibacy as a necessary good work, have become a laughingstock. Even their own dare to laugh when others make sport or even scorn their ways. For these ways are not God’s ways; perpetual celibacy is a human invention.
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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.
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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.
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Day 353 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Hebrews 11:1–13:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The churches and seminaries should be places where people may safely flee the passions — not run straight into them, and with more abundance and variety than was known elsewhere.
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Day 352 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Hebrews 7:1–10:39 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We should never place so-called common sense before Holy Scripture. We may imagine that we understand something perfectly well, yet God’s way are not our ways. What once seemed entirely sensible to us looks quite different through the eyes of faith.
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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.
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Marriage should never be considered an obstacle to salvation, nor as a life filled with sins. Quite the opposite is true. The Apostle Paul praises the married life for its unique ability to keep one from sin.
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Christ is the Sun, the source of the spiritual day, from whom the gospel brightness shines throughout the world through the apostles' preaching.
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Day 351 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Hebrews 1:1–6:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Day 350 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Titus1:1–Philemon 25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Not only was celibacy not the thing in Rome or in the monasteries, unchastity was on display in these places — as it is now. This hypocrisy was well-known to the people.
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Marriage should never be considered an obstacle to salvation, nor as a life filled with sin. Quite the opposite is true. The Apostle Paul praises the married life for its unique ability to keep one from sin.
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Day 349 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Timothy 1:1–4:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Programs of austerity for the sake of meriting favor with God are useless. Indeed, they are harmful. These things make us think that we are the cause of our own salvation.
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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.
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Day 348 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Timothy 1:1–6:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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