In the Old Testament, many things represented things to come; they are lesser types of a greater future. What was concealed in the Old Testament is revealed in the New Testament.
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Day 31 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 39:1–40:38 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Day 30 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 36:1–38:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Doctrine must have a sure and clear word of God, not obscure analogies. Nothing in Scripture suggests that a ceremony saves us from sin and death. God has done that for us.
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That holy priesthood called the Church is the temple of God through which sacrifices are to be made to him. We do not mean physical sacrifices.
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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.
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Day 29 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 33:1–35:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 28 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 30:1–32:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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As much as you are able, live in peace with all; spend time with those of humble circumstance. Be a blessing to your neighbor.
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This is the sacrifice that is acceptable to God: our old nature mortified in Christ Jesus. The death of Christ occurred on the cross, while ours happens in baptism where our fleshly nature is slain with Christ.
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The day is coming when every knee in heaven and on earth will bow at the name of Jesus. This does not come through robotic religion; it happens when hearts are regenerated through the preaching of the gospel.
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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.
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Day 27 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 28:1–29:46 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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A list and links to missions and ministries we support
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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.
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The Lord’s name will be made great throughout the earth through the preaching of the gospel. The Spirit produces faith in individuals through the Word.
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Day 26 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 25:1–27:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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This is a page devoted to some of the quotes of Luther that Pastor Ryman likes. You may like them too.
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Some Inspiration from Scripture about walking to get your legs moving
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Having been moved to faith, the Spirit of God begins to transform us through the Word, worship, and testing. He gives each believer a gift or gifts of the Spirit that should be used in service for God.
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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.
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Day 25 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 22:1–24:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 24 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 19:1–21:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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Works are things that God rewards, to be sure, but something else is more certain. God does not reward our good works with salvation.
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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.
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Day 23 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 16:1–18:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Do good but do not depend upon your good works. Depend upon God, upon his word and his promises. Though they please him if done from the heart, God does not require your sacrifices.
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Day 22 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 13:1–15:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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The Hebrew word for “obey” can also be understood to heed, listen, or hear. For to truly hear is to obey. If you do not obey, you have not really heard.
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In the New Testament, there is no offering or service or work that merits God’s favor ex opere operato — on account of the work that has been done or the service rendered.
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Day 21 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 10:1–12:51 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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We are to offer sacrifices but the Lutheran Reformers wanted to be clear, not only what those sacrifices are but, what they accomplish. There is no sacrifice that we can offer or that can be offered for us.
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Day 20 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 7:1–9:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.”
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Day 19 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 4:1–6:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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There is only one work that saves, reconciles, justifies, atones, provides forgiveness of sin. That one work or sacrifice is not something that any human being can do.
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After the true sacrifice had been accomplished, all analogous and ceremonial sacrifices should cease. What they pointed toward had already been accomplished in Christ’s cross.
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Day 18 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 1:1–3:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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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.
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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.
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You may sacrifice this thing or another, hoping that God will be appeased and forgive your sins. Or you might do some good work or act of penance, again, hoping that God will remove your guilt.
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Day 17 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 48:1–50:26 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Baptism “brings about forgiveness of sins, delivers from death and the devil, and gives everlasting salvation to all who believe, as the Word and promise of God declare.”
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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.
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