No 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."
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Day 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.
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Scripture shows us that in God there are three persons — not three Gods or three kinds of divinity, but the same undivided, divine essence.
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Day 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.
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We are to cover the shame of our neighbor with our own honor and piety, not cause wounds caused by gossip that we cannot heal.
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Day 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.
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"We should rebuke and deal with the sinner in earnest; yet we are not to despise but sincerely to love him."
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Day 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.
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Readings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Eleventh Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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"The tongue of a minister — the language he employs — must be of that simplicity which preaches naught but Christ," and brings him the glory.
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Day 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.
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We 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.
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Day 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.
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Even pious people can scarcely stand firm, often being entangled by gross sins and natural corruptions, for original sin is complete lawlessness.
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Day 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.
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We 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.
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Day 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.
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Although the Christians senses within himself the presence of evil thoughts and lusts, yet his faith and the Holy Spirit remind him of his baptism.
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Day 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.
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God 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.
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Day 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.
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Readings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Tenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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Christians do not follow pastors; they follow Christ Jesus. Pastors preach the gospel, a message that leads lost sheep to the one who saves them.
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Day 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.
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Noah is called “just” because he first believed, then “perfect” (“upright”) because he walked in the fear of God and conscientiously avoided sins.
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Day 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.
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The religious people were enemies of Christ because of the people Jesus called his friends: sinners who wanted to follow him.
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Day 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.
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When 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.
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Day 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.
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"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."
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Day 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.
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"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."
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Day 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.
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We are in the golden age because we have the light of God’s Word and the sacraments are rightly administered in our churches.
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Day 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.
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The service of righteousness in Christ has the double blessing of a clear conscience before God and the rich and incorruptible reward of eternal life.
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Day 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.
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Faith 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.
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Day 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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It is by the power of the resurrection of Christ that Thomas, and us, who are so deep and obdurate in unbelief, are so suddenly changed.
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Day 203 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 30–31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The most religious person will be lost and condemned if he will not believe. For there is no forgiveness of sins, nor salvation, if one does not believe.
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Day 202 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 27–29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We make excuses, preferring many things against the gospel, for we are no better than were the ancient Jews, who also rejected the gospel for the law.
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Day 201 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 24–26 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Wherever the Word of God has a foothold, there the devil will be. He will always build his taverns and kitchens by the side of God’s house.
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Day 200 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 22–23 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Jesus sends every Christian to instruct and teach his neighbor, that he may also come to Christ, a power not reserved for popes, bishops, and pastors.
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Day 199 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 19–21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"Poverty and suffering make no one acceptable to God; but if he is already acceptable to God, his poverty and suffering are precious in God’s eyes."
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Day 198 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 16–18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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This old man must be crucified, executed, put out of the way, even here in this life. Were he remains in his strength, faith and spirit cannot be.
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Day 197 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 13–15 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Readings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Eighth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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If you wish to proceed wisely and truly apprehend God, you can do no better than to be interested in his Word where he has revealed himself.
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Day 196 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 10–12 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The preaching of Christ feeds his guests through holy baptism, comforting and strengthening them through the Sacrament of his body and blood.
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Day 195 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 7–9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Through baptism, Christ dedicates us to himself — he decides for us, elects us — and imparts to us the power of his death and resurrection.
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Day 194 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 4–6 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Before man may receive righteousness and eternal life, there must come One who has eternal righteousness and life, who appeases God’s wrath.
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Day 193 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Proverbs 1–3 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We must abandon the life of the flesh and enter into new life, dead to the old. There must be a real change and an overthrow of nature and feeling.
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Day 192 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 146–150 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Readings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Seventh Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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Knowing that you all embrace the one true God's Word, hold together in one faith and one mind, not disagreeing as though you had many gods.
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Day 191 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 140:1–145:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"In these words the soul finds a well prepared table, at which it satisfies all hunger; for it knows of a certainty that he who speaks cannot lie."
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Day 190 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 133:1–139:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Sin is not forgiven so that we may sin all the more, taking God's grace for granted and taking advantage, but so that conscience is free to love God.
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Day 189 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 120:1–132:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"Faith, if it is true faith, is of such a nature that it does not rely upon itself, but holds to Christ, and takes refuge under his righteousness."
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Day 188 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 119:89–176 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The preaching of the law shows us that our entire lives and characters, however holy and beautiful they may seem, are nothing before God.
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Day 187 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 119:1-88 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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All people are in ancient Cain's very same condition, for unless our nature is helped by the Spirit of God, it cannot maintain itself.
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Day 186 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 115–118 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Because God has so richly shed upon us the gospel of light, we ought in honor and gratitude to him try to reform and temper ourselves.
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Day 185 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 108–114 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The two powers, God’s and Caesar’s, or spiritual and temporal kingdoms, must be kept apart, Christians especially rendering to each the honor due.
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Day 184 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 106–107 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christ Jesus was buried that he might, through forgiveness, cover up, mortify, and destroy our sin, whether actually committed or inherent in us.
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Day 183 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 103–105 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God provides strong medicine to cure the sinful condition but this gives no license to make oneself ill so that more medicine may be received.
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Day 182 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 96–102 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Readings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Sixth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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You are blessed if your have heard and seen with your heart the Lord Jesus Christ, for there are those who have heard and seen without perception.
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Day 181 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 90–95 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Since man has fallen in sin, we all — the whole creation — must suffer the consequence and be subject to futility and vanity...and yet may have hope.
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Day 180 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 86–89 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Following Christ means that our whole life is a constant exercise of faith, whereby we are assured that we have favor with God because of him.
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Day 179 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 80–85 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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My conscience must rest upon the foundation, the eternal, all-knowing truth that God alone is truth, and must rest upon him and nothing else.
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Day 178 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 78–79 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God never lays his hand upon us in order that we would be damned but pursues a course that leads us to repentance, so we would seek his grace.
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Day 177 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 74–77 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Man is made in God's image and God wills that we revere his image in our neighbor, doing all we can for him, protecting him and doing him good.
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Day 176 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 70–73 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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In Cain, we see the hateful world, and on the other hand, that poor, abject Abel well represents the obscure little brotherhood: the Church of Christ.
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Day 175 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 66–69 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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