The Large Catechism – part 112
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 9:33
Peter failed to recognize what was happening in this singular event that showed him the glory of Christ Jesus.
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Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
The Large Catechism – part 111
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 9:20
We have seen what Peter would do if left to his own reason. Religion and abandonment are the outcomes.
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The Large Catechism – part 110
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 27:11
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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The Large Catechism – part 109
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 8:40
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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The Large Catechism – part 108
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 9:28
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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The Large Catechism – part 107
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 28:11–15
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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The Large Catechism – part 106
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 27:30-31
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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The Large Catechism – part 105
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Hosea 8:7
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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The Large Catechism – part 104
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 6:46
“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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The Large Catechism – part 103
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 6:5
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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The Large Catechism – part 102
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Hosea 3:1–5
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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The Large Catechism – part 101
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 5:20–21
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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The Large Catechism – part 100
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 20:32
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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The Large Catechism – part 99
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 4:31–32
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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The Large Catechism – part 98
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 4:16
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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The Large Catechism – part 97
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Luke 4:4
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 Large Catechism – part 96
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 18:12–13
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 Large Catechism – part 95
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Esther 4:14
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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The Large Catechism – part 94
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 17:10–11
Would you be ignoble? Ignore the Scriptures. Would you be honorable? Attend to the weekly service to hear the word of God read and expounded.
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The Large Catechism – part 93
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 16:25
Christians worship, not only when commanded, but when there is need. Are you a sinner in need of forgiveness? Worship. Are you thankful? Worship.
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The Large Catechism – part 92
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 16:22–24
On their way to worship, Paul and Silas were hounded by a slave fortune teller, whom they healed of demonic possession, essentially cutting of a flow of money to her owners. For this, they had Paul and Silas beaten and imprisoned.
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The Large Catechism – part 91
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 16:13–14
Take a break. Find respite from the hubbub every day, if you can. It is a great way to honor the First Commandment, to put the Lord first in your day. But certainly take a break on the Lord’s Day.
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The Large Catechism – part 90
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 15:19
What is the aim of the gospel? That question will guide you in determining if something is a matter of the spirit or a religious observance.
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The Large Catechism – part 89
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 15:10–11
When we read the law, much less try to keep it, we must also hear the word of grace. The commandments do us no good without God’s grace.
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The Large Catechism – part 88
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 14:21–22
Find a way! Speak their language while proclaiming the word of truth. Teach in different ways. Get through to them, especially as pertains to these first commandments.
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The Large Catechism – part 87
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Job 29:14
This is what The Small Catechism does; it teaches us to put on the only righteousness that is effective. It instructs us to fear, love, and trust in God, who alone is our righteousness.
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The Large Catechism – part 86
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 10:27–29
We do well to entrust ourselves to God. He is faithful to strengthen us and protect us from evil. He is faithful to so in this life and save us for the life to come.
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The Large Catechism – part 85
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Job 19:25-26
Poor Job was tormented by his friends, shunned by his family, and was of the opinion that God was after him. Did he simply complain about his plight? Was he reduced to whining about his tribulations?
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The Large Catechism – part 84
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 9:3
There is no easier way for the works of God to be demonstrated in our lives than by our calling upon the Father. See the different ways we pray it is so. May your name be holy among us.
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The Large Catechism – part 83
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 12:21–24
In this example of Herod, we may quickly observe what is important to God. Herod was full of himself, wanting people to hear his words.
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The Large Catechism – part 82
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Job 13:7
Some people, those relying on their own old nature, cannot bear to hear God’s word, let alone understand it. They will not listen, because they are not of God; they do not have a new nature.
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The Large Catechism – part 81
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 8:31–32
The disciples of Jesus were first called Christians in Antioch. Some say that this means “little Christs.” If so — if Christians are those who would imitate him — their lying would immediately bring dishonor to the name of the God whom they follow.
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The Large Catechism – part 80
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 10:43
The worst way to take God’s name in vain, is to say or believe that favor from God is received in one’s own name, his own reputation — in other words, by the merits of what he does.
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The Large Catechism – part 79
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 7:17
Jesus uses the Name in a doubly devout manner. Not only does he teach what his Father sent him to teach, he gives God the credit too. Jesus’ teaching depended on the reputation of the one who sent him.
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The Large Catechism – part 78
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Job 7:21
Jesus taught us in the Fifth Petition of his prayer to trust in God for forgiveness of our sins. Human nature reasons that our suffering is caused by God no longer loving us, and that there must be a reason for the loss of his care.
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The Large Catechism – part 77
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 6:63
Why is it that God is so concerned with words, that we speak the truth and use his name, his reputation, with care? Words, true words, create life. They create faith in Christ Jesus, which leads to eternal life.
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The Large Catechism – part 76
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 9:31
Fear is a good thing. But we say that we do not want our children growing up, fearing the Lord. We want them to fear hot stoves, bad influences, and other harmful things, but not to fear taking the Lord’s name in vain.
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The Large Catechism – part 75
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 6:40
Everywhere one turns, there are lies and deception. In the modern age, we call it spinning the truth, and thereby, we even lie about lying. People claim to no longer lie, but to simply spin the truth.
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The Large Catechism – part 74
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Job 1:20–22
Wickedness exists because people want things their way. They want what belongs to another, or they want but will not work. They want their own will be done, not, “Thy will be done.”
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The Large Catechism – part 73
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Judges 18:20
Have you ever noticed in the Old Testament the convention of capitalizing the word “Lord,” or sometimes “God”? These indicate a place where the consonantal name of God, YHWH...
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The Large Catechism – part 72
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 8:1–3
Name-calling, threats, imprisonment, and murder are bad enough but when they are done under the cover of religion, these things are contemptible.
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The Large Catechism – part 71
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Judges 17:6
Micah stole a great sum of money from his mother, then returned it because he feared her curse. She then dedicated it to the Lord, evidently hoping to amend the curse that ended up being upon her son.
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The Large Catechism – part 70
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 4:48
Among the crowds was a royal official who believed Jesus. While he took Jesus at his word, the rest seemed to need a show of it: signs and miracles.
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The Large Catechism – part 69
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Judges 14:18
As one would imagine, there are stark differences between Samson and Jesus. Samson took whatever his flesh desired. Jesus wanted what his Father willed. Samson killed to get what would not come to him naturally.
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The Large Catechism – part 68
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 4:7–10
See how near the Samaritan woman was to missing the grace of God. Old wounds and deep pride kept her from speaking the truth.
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The Large Catechism – part 67
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 5:41
If the apostles had promised to teach no longer about Jesus, but did so anyway, they would have taken the Lord’s name in vain. They would have lied in the name of God.
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The Large Catechism – part 66
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 3:5
The keeping of the commandments, so far as it depends upon us, begins with controlling the tongue. The Apostle James said that the tongue is a restless evil, so we must try to give it a rest.
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The Large Catechism – part 65
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Judges 8:22–23
Conversely, when the First Commandment is not observed, the other commandments will be broken. See how quickly, even after Gideon says God will rule the people, they put their trust in an object.
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The Large Catechism – part 64
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 3:16
It needs saying again, that a particular idol is always lurking nearby. We need to be aware of it so that we may give it a good kick behind us.
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The Large Catechism – part 63
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Acts 3:6
Look to the lowly apostles. None of them was high or mighty in the ways of the world. They were mostly fishermen, but because they put their trust in the Lord, God made them fishers of men.
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The Large Catechism – part 62
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Judges 6:36–38
If you would trust anything in this life, trust that which has been from the beginning, that truth which continues to flow down to us today.
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