Rely on the Word of God. Human traditions will compromise Scripture and cause you to stumble in your conscience. Worse, they will leave you with a sense of angst...
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Day 272 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Zechariah 8:1–14:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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You have the power to speak the Word; whoever believes has forgiveness of sins. If they believe not, then what you speak avails nothing though it be God’s Word.
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Day 271 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Zechariah 1:1–7:14 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God would not have us be overanxious for our life, but labor and commend our anxiety to him, so, he does not allow us to have another Lord besides himself.
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If a ceremony or regulation denies the work of Christ, God’s grace, or his plan of redemption, then it is untrue, or to use a stronger term, heresy. If it is claimed that any religious tradition attains to the remission of sins — in whole or in part — it is heresy.
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Imagining that one’s deeds earn heaven is bad enough. The notion that one’s good deeds are more than enough for self, and that the overflow may be shared with others so that they gain heaven is blasphemous.
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"The eternal Son of God was from the beginning with his church and with the people who received the promise of his coming in the form of man."
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Day 270 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Haggai 1:1–2:23 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 269 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Habakkuk 1:1–3:19 and Zephaniah 1:1–3:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The man who lies half dead, wounded and stripped of his clothing, is all mankind. The Samaritan is our Lord Jesus Christ Cling to him, your only help.
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It is critical that we understand what real faith is, and is not. Faith is not mere belief, for as James says, even demons believe in that sense.
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Day 268 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nahum 1:1–3:19 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Faith is the passive receiver. It does not grab or make wild efforts that get in the way, as though flailing its limbs trying to grasp the unreachable. Faith does not seize; it simply receives what is given.
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We must lay hold of the gospel in such a way that we may stand and say: “Not because a certain one taught, do I believe ... the doctrine itself is right."
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The widow's misfortune is portrayed here so that we might learn that with God nothing is impossible, whether it be misfortune, calamity, anger, or whatever.
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The Church is the communion of saints, that blessed fellowship of those who believe in and are faithful to Jesus Christ. Her holiness is not a sanctity or purity of her own...
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Day 267 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Micah 1:1–7:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 266 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Obadiah1:1–21 & Jonah 1:1–4:11 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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I vaguely recall a Christmas when I was 16 or 17 years old and refused to open presents. Realizing how foolish and hurtful I was acting, I conceded by joining in the festivities
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Jesus freely gives me his life with all his works, so that I may appropriate them to myself as a possession that is my own but is bestowed upon me as a free gift.
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Day 265 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Amos 6:1–9:15 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"Human nature alone will never be able to accomplish what God requires in this commandment, namely, that we surrender our will to the will of God..."
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If there are no bishops to ordain pastors, or if the bishops will not do so, it remains the Church’s responsibility to make sure new pastors are prepared, ordained, and called to serve congregations.
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The more misery and death are in us, the more richly we may find comfort and life in Christ Jesus, provided we hold fast to him by faith through his Word.
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Day 264 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Amos 1:1–5:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christ calls ministers of his Gospel. If an institution, tradition, or just plain poor management stands in the way of their placement, it is the Church’s responsibility to make a way for them.
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Day 263 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Joel 1:1–3:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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What would all the riches and nobility of the world be compared with being named and chosen by God himself, called his son, the heir of exalted divine majesty?
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The greater excommunication or excommunicatio major was an ecclesiastical penalty that introduced civil and political restrictions as well as religious limitations.
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The Word of God sanctifies all whom it touches. This cleansing does not happen to people because they do holy things but instead, because the holy God has forgiven them of all their sin.
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Day 262 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Hosea 8:1–14:9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christians need not waver, nor stake their affairs on that which is uncertain, vainly caring for the future, but at all times do that which is right.
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Day 261 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Hosea 1:1–7:16 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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You see how important, how central the Word must be to all doctrine. We dare not permit anyone to claim a special word from God. Let a person speak the external, revealed Word of God and be content.
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Do this for the honor of God and for your own benefit: strive after the great and eternal good. If you attain and keep this, the rest will surely take care of itself.
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For all his devotion and good deeds, Cornelius was not spared from the wrath of God against sin. Though he feared God, he did not know him. He believed in a coming Savior but was not saved.
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Day 260 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 10:1–12:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The preaching of the precious gospel offers God’s grace and mercy in Christ, which is offered to condemned sinners without any merit of their own.
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Day 259 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 8:1–9:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If overcome by wrath and led to rashness, do not continue in it, do not harbor it, but subdue and restrain it, the sooner the better.
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That someone could believe in someone or something that they have never heard of is an absurd notion. How can anyone believe in Christ without having heard of him?
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Day 258 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 4:1–6:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Word of God is the foundation of doctrinal authority. It is God’s agency of grace. Human reason cheats people out of his grace and turns them into true fanatics who rely on their own so-called insights instead of the conviction of Scripture.
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To love God with all the mind is to cleave to him who is our chief good, to do nothing against his will, to take nothing except what is pleasing to God.
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God gives us his Spirit, and an understanding of the things of the Spirit, through his Word. “God told me,” does not cut it. “It is written,” is the way of God’s people. Examples are in abundance.
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Day 257 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 1:1–3:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If you would be freed from your sins, do not chastise yourself with them, but seize Christ, the one who has taken your sins upon himself.
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Day 256 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 46:1–48:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Within myself, I delight in God’s Word. But I cannot do it, much as I try. I am a sinner; that much I can confess. And more! For, though I cannot do what the Word tells me, I keep it and remain delighted by its promises.
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"Wherever God’s Word is preached, there is God’s own true house, there God most certainly dwells with his grace. Wherever his gospel is, there..."
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