Day 90 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Samuel 15:1–17:58 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Paul then said, “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
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We are left to believe the Word, the word of Christ, and his works that follow after us. not in our own works, but by faith in the word of the cross.
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If our religion is one that earns forgiveness of sin and eternal life through religious devotion, services, and other good works, then we slander faith in Christ, just as the religious authorities in Jerusalem spurned Christ himself.
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Day 89 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Samuel 13:1–14:52 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Christian life is not a matter of outward appearance but of living by the Word and through faith in and under the name of Christ Jesus, our Lord.
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Faith must be of a character that excludes all works, personal devotion, piety, or holiness as the reason for salvation, and trusts in Christ alone — that through his death, resurrection, and ascension we are saved from sin and death.
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Years ago, my Dad took me to a Cincinnati Reds baseball game. On the way, we ate at a restaurant he liked. Over his protests, I bought my meal...
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Day 88 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Samuel 9:1–12:25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God demands admission or confession of sin, and that people everywhere repent of their sins, turning away from self to God through his Savior.
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Day 87 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Samuel 4:1–8:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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What does God want? What does he want more than anything? What does God want from us “above all things”? He wants us. He wants our hearts, our trust, so that he may bless us.
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When anxiety, distress, or other trials come your way, hold fast to the Word, keep the faith, you will see Christ clearly there, and he will again bring you joy.
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Day 86 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Samuel 1:1–3:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Instead of “circumcision,” one might as well say “vows” or any other legalism — the idea is the same. Neither vows nor a lack of vows counts for anything. Only faith matters.
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What a trial the Lutheran Reformers faced; we can hardly imagine such an issue in our modern culture. Back and forth the arguments went, first being written out, edited by peers, then written again and again until all could be in agreement with the document before sending it on to Rome.
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Day 85 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ruth 1:1–4:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We confess that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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The old saying that confession is good for the soul is not sufficiently correct; it is the absolute forgiveness of sins that is good for the souls of sinners.
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Day 84 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 19:1–21:25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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So-called evangelical perfection is the keeping of all God’s commands. Let us consider three points in this regard. First, being in a monastic order does not equal “evangelical perfection” any more than does membership in a particular denomination.
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Day 83 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 16:1–18:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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One finds in Jesus strength and comfort against all vice and bad habits, as true Christians incorporate the life and name of Christ into their own lives.
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It is an easy enough trap to fall into. One imagines he is being religious but his religion is based on human traditions. Anything can happen now—and will, as was evidenced by Christians being slaughtered at the hands of the Church.
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Greed always ends in activity that is unfitting for Christians and harmful to the Church. What begins in the heart seeps out into character and behavior.
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Day 82 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 13:1–15:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Do not try to work yourself up to a feeling of being forgiven and loved by God, but ask him for the faith to know Christ crucified, and the assurance of salvation.
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There are abuses in churches because there are people in churches. Sinners bring their problems and opinions with them and share them with everyone present. Of course, we should speak against certain abuses, using Scripture to reason with folks.
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Day 81 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 10:1–12:15 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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No one but Christ Jesus has suffered for the sins of others, yet his passion, his suffering and death, avail for the salvation of every sinner who believes on him.
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It is a tightrope. We are taught to be patient and gentle, loving one another with humility and forgiveness. At the same time, we are to admonish one another from the Scripture.
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Whoever disregards the life of Christ on earth, wishing to find eternal life in some other way than he accomplished for us, fails to find salvation.
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Day 80 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 8:1–9:57 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The righteousness of faith is a most blessed, gracious gift of God. Through this righteousness, we honor him and possess a constant comfort against sin and death.
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Day 79 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 6:1–7:25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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In order to keep our focus on God, instead of on self, we are sometimes given a gift: an affliction of the flesh that makes us rely upon God.
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Day 78 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 3:1–5:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If you think that salvation is earned by the works you do, you either have become your own god or you have followed another false god. If you are able to save yourself from judgment by doing certain works...you have become your own god.
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It is the sin of all who have ever lived — including you and me — that sent Christ Jesus to the cross to pay the ransom for of a whole world of sinners.
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Aerius was a fourth century bishop of Sabaste in Pontus (modern day Sivas in the Black Sea area of Turkey). His teachings about offerings for the dead not being part of the Mass labeled his as a heretic by most of the church.
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Life is sometimes difficult, so we must hold firmly in faith to the word and promises of God in Jesus Christ found in the Scriptures, The Holy Bible.
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Day 77 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Judges 1:1–2:23 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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This is our hope — our only hope: Christ Jesus — that we might believe in him, and having such faith, come to see him on that great and glorious Day.
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Day 76 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Joshua 22:1–24:33 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Worship in the New Testament is done “in spirit and truth.” This kind of worship means that the active agent is the Spirit of God — not us. Our works do not count for anything.
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Day 75 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Joshua 19:1–21:45 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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