Holy Communion is not effective because of motions and rituals. We are not accomplishing something because we have acted out a tragedy.
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Day 59 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Deuteronomy 3:1–4:49 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Read the Bible on your own, for sure. But get yourself to church to hear the Word read and proclaimed among God's community. He speaks there.
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The New Testament teaches that the highest form of worship happens within, spiritually, in the heart. One may do all the outward, religious services but do so with a corrupt heart.
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There should be a grateful and increasing degree of perfection in the doctrines we have received, perceiving our errors and striving to mend our ways.
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The Word has been given to reveal God and arouse faith in him. The Sacrament of Holy Communion was instituted so that, in remembering Christ, that faith may be strengthened.
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Day 58 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Deuteronomy 1:1–2:37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Everyone — even old Noah, your pastor, and your child — is a sinner who can do nothing without God's assistance. Admit it, and salvation begins.
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A husband may buy his wife diamonds, flowers, and many other things, but if his word does not accompany them, it is difficult to believe for long that these are signs of his love.
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Day 57 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 35:1–36:13 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 56 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 33:1–34:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The wastelands of unclean spirits are nothing more than unbelieving hearts, Evil is anxious to return home, so keep believing and exercising your faith.
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Drawing significance to professions, making divisions among ourselves, is the furthest thing from the focus of the Lord’s Supper. Christ is the emphasis of our communion. Christ is our communion.
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The human heart, harder than diamonds, is determined to have its own way. Religious matters are not exempt from our hardness of heart.
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Day 55 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 31:1–32:42 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The law condemns but the gospel takes away all despair, so that, even if one has only some crumbs of faith, she may believe and be a child of God.
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Day 54 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 28:1–30:16 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The bare Word of God is what must make the difference for us — not disappointment or glee or any other feeling. Cling to the Word alone!
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Our sacrifices — on an altar or on the altar of life do not settle the score with God. As we have shown many times, Christ alone is the sacrifice that has reconciled God.
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The disciples gathered around their Lord, bringing nothing to the table. Christ Jesus brought it all. The disciples did nothing but receive with thankful hearts.
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Day 53 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 26:1–27:23 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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All works of love, then, must be directed, as commanded, to our needy neighbors. In these lowly ones we are to find, love, serve, and honor God.
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Besides the odious practice of marketing Christ’s body and blood, this commerce is based upon selfish desires, largely the freeing of departed loved ones from a place that does not exist.
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"The Spiritual Realms," a nine-session Bible study on Heaven and Hell and other places beyond this world
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Be careful that you are not tempted to believe twisted Scriptures, especially when it concerns false promises for your soul. Christ alone is our Promise.
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Day 52 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 23:1–25:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 51 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 21:1–22:41 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We do not live by the nourishment of the body alone. We also need spiritual sustenance, or as Jesus says, "that word that proceeds from the mouth of God"
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Holy Communion is the privilege of those who truly participate in the body and blood of Christ. This participation is genuine fellowship in the communion of saints, else it is a mockery.
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Day 50 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 18:1–20:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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There is false security in performing a ritual, or in it being performed for us, expecting that it has some spiritual value just because the ceremony is done. It is not enough to come to the altar to eat and drink a bit of bread and wine.
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What do you want Jesus to do for you? Heal some spiritual blindness? Increase your faith? Hear the gospel and receive God's grace? Ask and you shall receive.
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We cannot work our way to God. We cannot do so morally or religiously. Imagine someone saying, I’m good enough now to be forgiven my badness.
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Jesus was able to be patient with his accusers and attackers because he did not entrust himself to their judgment but to him who judges justly.
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Day 49 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 16:1–17:13 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The religious works of others on our behalf can no more kill or mortify us than make us alive again or quickened. The work worked by them, though perhaps very satisfying to the eye and ear, remains the work of a human being.
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Day 48 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 14:1–15:41 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We should cheerfully suffer want and temptation for the service of God and the good of our neighbor, like Christ did for us.
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Either Christ is the full and final atonement for the sins of the world, or he is not. In the latter case, two things are true.
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"Reason, flesh and blood, cannot understand, nor grasp that the Scriptures should say how the Son of man must be crucified...to suffer for us."
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Day 47 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 11:1–13:33 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We are to owe no person anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law and commandments.
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Day 46 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 8:1–10:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Paul tells us all that is required to be reconciled to God. All things in heaven and earth are brought peace and consolation through the blood of Christ alone. Through faith...
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God had a plan — from the beginning. You see it spread before you as early as the book of Genesis. He made a covenant with Abraham in order to bless the nations through the Lion of tribe of Judah.
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If you do not love your neighbor, your conscience will condemn you. Without trust in a forgiving Father, you will be overwhelmed with guilt.
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Day 45 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Numbers 7:1–89 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God had a plan—from the beginning. You see it spread before you as early as the book of Genesis. He made a covenant with Abraham in order to bless the nations through the Lion of tribe of Judah.
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The gifts of God are to be used in service of neighbor so that God receives the glory for our actions. This is accomplished when we serve with love.
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