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Reading the Word with Luther
Series: Reading the Word with Luther
Scripture Text: Luke 17:3–5
"We should therefore despair of ourselves and pray to God for faith as the apostles did. When we have faith we need nothing more..."
More"We should therefore despair of ourselves and pray to God for faith as the apostles did. When we have faith we need nothing more..."
MoreDay 249 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 25:1–27:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreOnce we have been baptized into Christ and believe, his will is that we should then live accordingly, obeying God and doing what is commanded.
MoreDay 248 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 23:1–24:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"Christ commands the disciples to set the loaves before the multitude, by which he shows that he will administer his work and gifts through the instrumentality of human agencies."
MoreDay 247 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 21:1–22:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreClick HERE for an online Jigsaw puzzle of the above Scripture graphic. Join us for Morning Prayer in the chapel, Monday through Friday* at 8:30am, where we read and discuss these Scriptures and pray together. We do the same during Vespers in the parsonage Sunday evenings at 6pm. Join us! The parsonage is across the street from the church. Our readings for the week of the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost are listed below. Each verse is linked and will open to Biblia so you may read online. Click the link to read online or read in your Bible. The additional reading each day speaks to the common conversation between the three ...
MoreWhat would it help the critics of Christ if the gospel was preached twice as clearly as it is? They are so deafened by their own conceits that they can hear nothing else.
MoreDay 246 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 18:1–20:48 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"When we come before God the Father, Christ will say: Father! Although they have not wholly fulfilled thy law, yet I have done so, let this be to their benefit because they believe in me."
MoreDay 245 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 16:1–17:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreMorning and Evening Psalms
More"Oh, how heavy and terrible the impending judgment for those who have denied to Christ the Lord, in his thirst, even the cup of cold water."
MoreDay 244 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 13:1–15:8 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreLuther uses the this story to illustrate how office of ministry brings the Word to people so that they may hear and be given faith to believe.
MoreDay 243 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 9:1–12:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe Spirit impresses Christ and his works upon the heart, making it a true book which does not consist in tracing mere letters and words, but in true life and action.
MoreDay 242 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 5:1–8:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreRally Sunday 2026 photos, videos, and story
MoreGood works do not make one pious or good. One must first be good and pious at heart. The tree must first be there to bear the fruit.
MoreDay 241 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 1:1–4:17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreReadings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
MoreSo much of what false teachers' have afflicted the church with in recent decades is easily overcome by exercising judgment through the Word.
MoreDay 240 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Lamentations 3:37–5:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreNo one thinks of saving for posterity, but live as if they rejoice in destroying everything at once. Yet in all this destruction God will nevertheless help us.
MoreDay 239 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Lamentations 1:1–3:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"All who faithfully cling to the Word of God will be fed by God; for that is the nature and power of faith, which flows alone out of the Word of God."
MoreDay 238 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 51–52 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreOur eternal life, attained through faith in Christ. will be to know God, delight in his wisdom, and enjoy the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
MoreDay 237 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 49–50 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"The chief thing that should influence a Christian’s outward walk is the remembrance of his calling and appointment by God."
MoreDay 236 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 46–48 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"To be 'led by the Spirit of God' means to be given a heart which gladly hears God’s Word and believes that in Christ it has grace and the forgiveness of sins."
MoreDay 235 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 42–45 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreA description of Rally Day 2026 events and Christian education at St. Paul's
More"It is natural for us to feel hurt when suffering, injustice, and violence attack us...it becomes necessary to check and restrain the feelings of anger..."
MoreDay 234 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 38–41 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"Not until Peter considered himself unworthy did he become really worthy. Just because you are a sinful person you must the more trust in God."
MoreDay 233 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 35–37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreReadings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
More"Christians must not seek their own, but look at all alike, whether friend or foe, as our heavenly Father does. Without such mercy, there is no true faith."
MoreDay 232 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 32–34 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"There is peace, strength and comfort in the heart, so that the heart cares for no evil, is really bolder and more joyful in its presence than in its absence."
MoreDay 231 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 30–31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreNoah kept his eye on the majesty of him who gave the command. That was enough for him, even though the command seemed absurd or impossible.
MoreDay 230 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 26–29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreGod performs his miracles along the lines of natural law. Looking for bread from heaven, rather than by human means, tests God and is a sin.
MoreDay 229 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 23–25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreChristians have help and strength to resist and mortify sin. and must constantly put to death the flesh lest they be put to death by it.
MoreDay 228 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 18–22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreIt is a glory that every preacher may be able to say with full confidence that he trusts God for teaching and preaching truly the Word of God.
MoreDay 227 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 14–17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreJoin us for Morning Prayer in the chapel, Monday through Friday* at 8:30am, where we read and discuss these Scriptures and pray together. We do the same during Vespers in the parsonage Sunday evenings at 6pm. Join us! The parsonage is across the street from the church. Our readings for the week of the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost are listed below. Each verse is linked and will open to Biblia so you may read online. Click the link to read online or read in your Bible. The additional reading each day speaks to the common conversation between the three readings. Sunday: Judges 6:1–24; 2 Corinthians 9:6–15; ...
MoreChrist keeps aloof from the lazy, unfaithful idlers who will not do as they have been commanded, and will not keep their hands and feet from straying.
MoreDay 226 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 10–13 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreChrist has not come to make you afraid, but to remove your sins and distress from you. “Fear not,” he speaks to your heart, and to the whole world.
MoreDay 225 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 7–9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe curse of humanity is they shall never be satisfied and must endure heartache and everlasting destruction through the things they have coveted.
MoreDay 224 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 4–6 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreIf you only remain under Christ's protection and lie still upon his shoulders, you need not be troubled about sin, death, or hell, for he defends you.
MoreDay 223 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 1–3 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreNo life is so difficult as the life of faith, depending only upon the promises of God when the who world seems to say, "God has forgotten all about you."
MoreDay 222 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 64–66 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreScripture shows us that in God there are three persons — not three Gods or three kinds of divinity, but the same undivided, divine essence.
MoreDay 221 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 59–63 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreWe are to cover the shame of our neighbor with our own honor and piety, not cause wounds caused by gossip that we cannot heal.
MoreDay 220 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 54–58 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"We should rebuke and deal with the sinner in earnest; yet we are not to despise but sincerely to love him."
MoreDay 219 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 49–53 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreReadings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Eleventh Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
More"The tongue of a minister — the language he employs — must be of that simplicity which preaches naught but Christ," and brings him the glory.
MoreDay 218 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 45–48 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreWe are not to be deceived by so-called ghosts, which are not souls but instead, demons bent on misdirecting a believer's focus on the living Christ.
MoreDay 217 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 42–44 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreEven pious people can scarcely stand firm, often being entangled by gross sins and natural corruptions, for original sin is complete lawlessness.
MoreDay 216 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 36–41 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreWe teach all to trust in the grace of God, not in their own worthiness, and to render him gratitude for his grace. This is intolerable to the world.
MoreDay 215 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 31–35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreAlthough the Christians senses within himself the presence of evil thoughts and lusts, yet his faith and the Holy Spirit remind him of his baptism.
MoreDay 214 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 28–30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreGod showers his gifts on an ungrateful world, whose people go about their lives as though sight and hearing were due them. And so, we miss God's grace.
MoreDay 213 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 23–27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreReadings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Tenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
MoreChristians do not follow pastors; they follow Christ Jesus. Pastors preach the gospel, a message that leads lost sheep to the one who saves them.
MoreDay 212 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 18–22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreNoah is called “just” because he first believed, then “perfect” (“upright”) because he walked in the fear of God and conscientiously avoided sins.
MoreDay 211 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 13–17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe religious people were enemies of Christ because of the people Jesus called his friends: sinners who wanted to follow him.
MoreDay 210 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 9–12 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreWhen one senses his wretchedness, then is the time to believe in Jesus Christ. There are no other means to save you, save be baptized and believe.
MoreDay 209 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 5–8 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"Christians have regard for God’s Word and believe that God cares for them. They commend all things to him and at his word go on with courage."
MoreDay 208 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Isaiah 1–4 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"Reason argues: You have sinned, you must also atone for your sin. The gospel of Christ says: You have sinned, another must atone for you."
MoreDay 207 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Song of Songs in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreWe are in the golden age because we have the light of God’s Word and the sacraments are rightly administered in our churches.
MoreDay 206 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ecclesiastes 9–12 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe service of righteousness in Christ has the double blessing of a clear conscience before God and the rich and incorruptible reward of eternal life.
MoreDay 205 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ecclesiastes 5–8 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreFaith is not an inactive and lifeless thing. When there is faith in the heart, its power will be manifested toward God and one's neighbor.
MoreDay 204 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ecclesiastes 1–4 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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