I Believe
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Mark 9:24
We confess what the Scripture teaches, and with the father of the boy with the unclean spirit, say, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
MoreIn both law and gospel he has given good gifts to his children. As the Almighty, he commands; as our Father, he gives us his grace.
MoreIn both law and gospel he has given good gifts to his children. As the Almighty, he commands; as our Father, he gives us his grace.
MoreIn these few, opening words of the creed, we see the Trinity expressed even before God is named as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
MoreIn the creed, we profess that it is God himself who saves us from sin and death. Our confession is that Jesus is this saving God.
MoreIn the creed, we profess that it is God himself who saves us from sin and death. Our confession is that Jesus is this saving God.
MoreThe Scriptures alone teach the incarnation, so we should believe it as an article handed over and shown to us by God himself.
MoreEven in the conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary, we see that human works had no play. Mary did nothing. Joseph surely did nothing. God did it all.
MoreIn becoming man, while also fully God, Jesus paid the price for our sin, restoring our favor with God by the blood of his sacrifice.
MoreJesus did not have to suffer under Pilate's authority but for the will of his Father, he suffered that the sins of the world be covered by his sacrifice.
MoreJesus suffered in our place a literally excruciating death in order to redeem the world from its lost condition, again literally justifying humanity to God.
MoreJesus really died. He is not dead, but he once died, crucified on a Roman cross. This was no trickery or vision; the incarnate God physically died.
MoreWe celebrate the Ascension; we should observe the “Descension” too. Jesus Christ did descend into hell but it could not hold him.
MoreLike Jacob, who simply believed the report of his son being still alive, we confess that on the third day Christ Jesus rose from the dead and lives.
MoreWe need not be concerned over our future. It is secure in Christ, so we are freed and empowered to live the risen and ascended life now.
MoreWe need not be concerned over our future. It is secure in Christ, so we are freed and empowered to live the risen and ascended life now.
MoreThe Christian should be careful to live faithfully, yet not trust in her own righteousness but in Jesus who is coming soon to judge all who have lived.
MoreChristians believe that the Lord our God is one God yet three persons, or the Trinity, whom we name as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
MoreIn the creed, we confess a catholic Church, meaning the entire communion of believers throughout time who hold to orthodox or correct doctrine.
MoreIn the creed, we confess a catholic Church, meaning the entire communion of believers throughout time who hold to orthodox or correct doctrine.
MoreLet us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
MoreDo not run for the bushes. Do not deny. Confess! For we have been given a Savior and so, we believe in the forgiveness of sins.
MoreResurrection is a mystery but we confess our belief that in the flash of an instant, we will be changed. We will be made otherwise, altered, glorified.
More"Are we there yet?" You have heard this childlike question many times. We too, should be like little children, eager to be at our eternal home with God.
More"Are we there yet?" You have heard this childlike question many times. We too, should be like little children, eager to be at our eternal home with God.
MoreThe Nicene Creed originated from a need to confront a false teaching by concisely and correctly teaching what the Scripture says about Jesus Christ.
MoreWe confess that the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, forever one God, is the creator of all things, whether visible or unseen.
MoreChrist was in the beginning as the creating Word. He was with God. And he was God. Christ Jesus is God, with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
MoreJesus has always been God with the Father and Holy Spirit. Together, they are one God and Jesus is God of this Triune God.
MoreThe light that is God is generated by his glory. As he is by definition, “God of God,” he is by description, “Light of Light.”
MoreThere is no other God to be truer than, so “true God of true God” simply emphasizes the doctrine that Jesus is not a created being but is truly God.
MoreChrist Jesus came to save us — not to make us feel better but to bring us into a corrected and eternal relationship with God.
MoreIf you are in Christ who is eternal from the Father, then you are eternal from and in Christ, a citizen of his eternal, never-ending kingdom.
MoreThe Holy Spirit is too often thought of as impersonal, a power, rather that the relational third person of the Trinity who is God.
MoreWe confess a Church united in its apostolic doctrines and practices, one that is orthodox, rightly teaching the Word and observing the sacraments.
MoreWe’re you baptized into a stream, a pond, a river, a baptistery, a font? Or were you baptized into Christ. If the latter, your sins have been removed.
MoreIn the creeds, we confess that Jesus really died but was also resurrected from the dead. And so, we confess that we too will be raised as he was.
MoreWe may hope to see a departed family member in heaven, but for the true believer, there is no greater longing than to be with God on earth as in heaven.
MoreThe whole three Persons are coeternal together, and coequal, so that in all things, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshiped.
MoreThe latest theological craze attracts the spiritually distracted like deer to headlights. The more glaring and wilder, the better.
MoreNow this is the catholic faith: we worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being.
MoreWe have been a great gift from God: the revelation of himself. Otherwise we could not comprehend the Mystery who is God, nor believe in him.
More"Now, that sounds believable," said no one ever about the Trinity — unless the Spirit of God is at work in her through the proclaimed Word.
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