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To serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor in love, whether enemy or friend, or whether you can help in temporal or spiritual matters.
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Peter failed to recognize what was happening in this singular event that showed him the glory of Christ Jesus.
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In today's video, we discuss how the light of Christ Jesus cannot be contained and will at last, enlighten our lives, filling every dark corner of our lives, banishing the darkness of sin forever.
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The offense of doctrine may be the most beautiful religious ceremonies, the noblest works, so that only faith through the Spirit recognizes that it is all wrong.
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We have seen what Peter would do if left to his own reason. Religion and abandonment are the outcomes.
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Do you think that God cannot preserve in his care the souls of men so that they will never know how heaven and earth passed away? You are in God’s hands.
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You may think that Paul’s warning to the centurion was not inspired. Yet, see how it finds its way into Luke’s account, into the Scripture? There is great danger in not paying attention to biblical counsel.
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In today's video, we discuss how God will make peace among the nations—and among us.
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The coming of Christ will not be attended by drums and bugles and the like worldly pomp, but by spiritual power and grace.
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Does it seem to you that some time has passed since you have heard from the Lord? Or, on the other hand, does it seem like it was only moments ago that God spoke?
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In today's video, we discuss how God is faithful even when we are faithless.
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We are not waiting for a Messiah and Savior yet to come. We are waiting each Advent for the Messiah and Savior who has come and will come again.
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Who was hounded by the devil more than Jesus? Now ask yourself: who has ever prayed more? Knowing the need, Jesus modeled the life of prayer to his disciples.
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In today's video, we discuss that God has chosen to reveal himself through love and faithfulness.
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For the sake of gain, we rise from sleep and go to work. How much greater the need for us to awaken from our spiritual sleep, to engage the works of light.
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Look at all the trouble that Paul and Luke went to just to preach the gospel. This is the great mission of the church, and they undertook it with passion. We should receive the proclaimed gospel with a matched passion...
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In today's video, we discuss God's' constant kingdom and the shifting political powers of our nation and the world.
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There is no one so prepared for the judgment day as he who fears God and longs to be without sin. What do you fear? You are well prepared for that day.
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Troubles come and troubles go, but we must abide in the ship. We hear the Word on the Lord’s Day, but we should remember it and keep it throughout the week.
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In today's video, we discuss our own craving for glory, and how this can be overcome by recognizing God's marvelous works and giving him the glory.
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If we are true Christians we will earnestly and heartily join in Christ's prayer, saying "Thy kingdom come." If we do not so pray, we are not yet true Christians.
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Hosea’s agricultural imagery depicts the results of idolatry. It is the same as sowing your seed in the wind. The outcome is more wind, or if the seed blows to other properties, they will eat the grain.
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In today's video, we discuss those things that seek to overtake God's chief place in our lives, and how eventually, God will unite all peoples with an undivided heart that fears, loves, and trusts in him above all things.
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Let the unbeliever doubt and despise God’s signs and speak of them as simply natural; but let us hold fast to the Word that gives us sufficient warning.
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“There’s the rub!” as Shakespeare had Hamlet say. What is the origin of this famous saying? Believe it or not; it comes from bowling.
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"People will eat and drink, buy and sell, marry and be given in marriage and wrap themselves up in this present life as if they expected to abide here forever."
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In today's video, we discuss God's mercy for all the peoples of the earth.
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Laws are not established as mere prohibition, but as protection and benefit for the people. This is the case with divine law as well as human.
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God sent his own Son into the world to do what humans cannot do by reason or religion. This is who we await in Advent, remembering again God's grace.
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What do you have to do in order to become holy? Nothing but follow him who makes one holy. We are called to follow him so we may be present for his great blessings.
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In today's video, we discuss our impatience with God and how he is with us in the midst of our troubles.
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We should not think of an earthly kingdom, nor of bodily salvation, but give attention to the promise of a spiritual kingdom and of a redemption.
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What greater words are these, spoken by God himself? The promise, “You are forgiven.” is received by God’s grace through faith alone.
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In today's video, we discuss frustrated plans and that sometimes it is God who is frustrating them.
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"The nature of faith is that it does not judge nor reason by what it sees, but by what it hears. It depends upon the Word alone and not on vision or sight."
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God’s word, the gospel, is the very power of salvation. This is how God bequests the eternal inheritance of the saints. He constructs a Christian through the word of his grace—in other words, through the righteousness of Christ.
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In today's video, we discuss oppression in the world and how it often enough comes from people and places we'd least expect.
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“Your King comes to you” does not mean that you find him, but that he seeks and finds you. Faith and works too, come from him, not from you.
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Everywhere Jesus traveled, he healed people, and fed them, but also taught them in the synagogues, as well as on the mountains and plains. Never once did he complain that all those people ever wanted out of him was his word.
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In today's reading, God puts Abraham to the test. In the midst of a most difficult trial, God provides for Abraham — and for us all. Watch the video where we discuss God's tests and promises in our lives.
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Faith brings and gives Christ to you with all his possessions. Love brings and gives you to your neighbor along with all of your possessions.
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Great blessing awaits those who have developed the practice of going to worship on the Lord’s Day. But if they attend church only to go through the motions, not truly involved in the what is happening...
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What is surprising about God's call on Abram/Abraham? Or for that matter, what's surprising about his calling you to your vocation? Watch the video as we seek to answer these questions and more.
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At his coming, Christ will glorify our bodies until they correspond to his own immortal, glorious body, doing all this quite without the help of our works.
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We spend our days working for the food to feed ourselves and our families, struggling for higher position, and trying to keep illness and death at bay. These were the very temptations that faced Jesus in the wilderness.
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The pastors of St. Paul's Lutheran Church share Pastor Julie Smith's Advent devotions for Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC). Julie, the LCMC Service Coordinator, has written these devotions for Monday through Saturday, December 1–24.
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Christians should comfort themselves in the confidence that God will not permit the wrongs to his people to be left unpunished and unavenged.
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If local, state, or federal law change to the degree of demanding that you must not worship on the Lord’s Day, you have but one option, Christian.
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The pastors of St. Paul's Lutheran Church share Pastor Julie Smith's Advent devotions for Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC). Julie, the LCMC Service Coordinator, has written these devotions for Monday through Saturday, December 1–24.
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The last day will come and people will not expect it, even though that day is at the door. Told that these are signs of the last day, still they will not believe.
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Why are you in the kingdom but to be a suitable subject, doing your king’s bidding? But what is his will? you may wonder. He has made this matter obvious, though the details may seem unclear.
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