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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"All who preach the doctrines of men make man the light, lead men away from God to themselves, and set themselves up as the true Light."
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Day 174 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 58–65 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 Fifth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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"Come what will, let us say: Here is God’s Word; that is my rock and anchor; to that I cling and that abides; and where that abides, there I abide also."
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Day 173 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalms 51–57 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christians are to be confident of eternal glory, to implore the Lord God to hasten the Day, for Jesus has taught us to pray, “Thy kingdom come.”
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Day 172 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 46–50 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We must be able to say that we know we have God’s pledge and the witness of the Holy Spirit, that he wants to be our Father through Christ, his Son.
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Day 171 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 40–45 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Experience teaches how difficult it is to keep Christ's Word, but the Christian will love Christ, his Word, and his kingdom more than all things of the earth.
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Day 170 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 36–39 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God uses marriage to get us out of our parents' homes so we may grow up, make a home and family of our own, and enjoy the blessings of that estate.
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Day 169 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 32–35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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One of the sweetest pleasures of Christian marriage is not sexual, that the blessing of the sense of completeness at being merely with one another.
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Day 168 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 26–31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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You may be a blessing to your neighbor because you know you are a child of God, received into his grace, and living in the sure hope of salvation.
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Day 167 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 21–25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The whole creation cries out for a speedy end of these injustices and abuses of the ungodly, and for the dawning of glory for the children of God!
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Bring your family and a covered dish for Homecoming at St. Paul's. Catch up with old friends and hear about the future at St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
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Day 166 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 17:1–20:9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If the affections and thoughts of men are without faith in God, they are without Christ and his Word, and therefore, they are without the truth.
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Day 165 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 9:1–16:11 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 Fourth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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God would have us occupy this world as guests, striving after an eternal kingdom, abstaining from lusts, maintaining a godly life of good works.
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Day 164 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Psalm 1:1–8:9 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 Third Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
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The affection of the intended husband toward his betrothed spouse is of a particular and elevated kind, a knowledge and revelation of the Holy Spirit.
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Day 163 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 40:1–42:17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christians should love and pray for the salvation of all, for the sanctification of God’s name, the coming of his kingdom, and the fulfilment of his will.
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Day 162 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 38:1–39:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Even in danger and death, you have a faithful Father and Savior, who has taken you into his own hand, and will preserve you. Journey on in joy.
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Day 161 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 35:1–37:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God’s ears are open to the prayers of the righteous, looking upon you with gracious, winning eyes, his ears alert even to the faintest sound of prayer.
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Day 160 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 32:1–34:37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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One may confess Christ but still deny him in deeds and works, by insisting he is his own lord through his religious observances being the way to salvation.
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Day 159 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 29:1–31:40 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is not enough that Christ be preached; the Word must be believed. So, God sends the Holy Spirit to impress the preaching upon the heart.
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Day 158 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 24:1–28:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is impossible to love, where no faith exists, and impossible to believe, where there is no love. Love of neighbor depends upon the love of God.
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Day 157 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 21:1–23:17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We are not condemned because we have great riches, but because we are attached to them and trust in them, instead of in Jesus Christ the Lord.
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Day 156 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 17:1–20:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God often lays hold upon leaders of sects who blaspheme with false doctrines, inflicting on them unusual punishments for the sake of warning others.
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Day 155 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 14:1–16:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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As long as unity of faith and oneness of mind survive, the true Church of God abides, so we must be careful to cherish the virtue of harmony.
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Day 154 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 11:1–13:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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An angry heart knows no moderation, fanning a tiny spark into a conflagration, retaliating and cursing, committing a greater wrong than suffered.
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Day 153 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 8:1–10:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The day will come when only righteousness and holiness shall dwell on the earth — none but godly, righteous souls — for we shall be like God.
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Day 152 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 5:1–7:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"What is temporal suffering, however protracted, contrasted with eternal life? It is not worthy to be called suffering or to be esteemed meritorious."
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Day 151 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Job 1:1–4:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is not becoming of Christians to lead heathenish lives, as they have something nobler to do. They are to be occupied with the Word of God.
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Day 150 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Esther 6:1–10:3 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Those who would follow their reason in the things dealt with in the article of the Trinity, will reject the Word, and be defeated in their "wisdom."
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Day 149 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Esther 1:1–5:14 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The primitive church would assemble daily for prayer, morning and evening, and also at certain other appointed hours, and frequently entire nights.
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Day 148 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nehemiah 12:1–13:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Spirit, pouring into our hearts, makes us different beings, creatures who love and obey God. This is simply the manifestation of his work in the heart.
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Day 147 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nehemiah 10:1–11:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Holy Spirit has comes to enlighten your hearts, so that you will understand the truth, and will call to remembrance all things of Christ.
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Day 146 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nehemiah 8:1–9:38 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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May the Holy Spirit working through the Word convince you that the Father would have your heart free, at peace with him through faith in his Son.
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Day 145 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nehemiah 7:1–73 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Church is where it happens. What happens there but God's Spirit working through the read and preached Word? We avoid the assembly at our peril.
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Day 144 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nehemiah 4:1–6:19 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We are loved of God through Christ Jesus and enjoy his favor and grace, but also have the great promises of the Lord himself dwelling completely in us.
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Day 143 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nehemiah 1:1–3:32 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christ binds the church to his Word and dwells in the midst of those who gather for the teaching and preaching of it, and live under its rule.
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Day 142 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezra 8:1–10:44 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Do not judge things according to feelings but keep to the Word and the comfort of preaching which the Holy Spirit gives to distressed consciences.
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Day 141 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezra 4:1–7:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The office of the Holy Spirit is, namely, to invest the treasure — Christ and all he has, to enfold him in your heart so that Christ Jesus may be your own.
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Day 140 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezra 1:1–3:13 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Church is not known by the name on the sign or external appearance but those who have real knowledge of Christ in his Word and promises.
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Day 139 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 35:1–36:23 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Why does God permit his own to suffer? In order to subdue the free will, that we should accustom ourselves to build alone upon Christ.
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Day 138 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 32:1–34:33 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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"Take heed to accept in purity and to maintain with patience the Word so graciously and richly given you by God without effort or merit on your part."
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Day 137 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 28:1–31:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Lord suffers a lifetime with us, giving us the opportunity to repent and believe in his Savior. But he will suffer no longer than a limited lifetime.
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Day 136 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 25:1–27:9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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May you hear the Word of God and believe because the Spirit has born witness with your spirit that this word comes from God, and is for you.
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Day 135 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 21:1–24:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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May you know the will of the Father so that you may ask rightly in the Son's name, knowing that you receive for Christ's sake, not by your own merit.
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Day 134 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 18:1–20:37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The gospel is a teaching that gives the world nothing but offense — a thing unworthy to be heard or tolerated because it is not worldly, but spiritual.
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Day 132 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 13:1–17:19 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The great and powerful work of all true Christians is, by God’s grace, to keep the faith so that they may have a clear conscience and peace before God.
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Day 132 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 9:1–12:16 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Those who would believe and preach the gospel, must cast aside all works supposed to make one just and holy , and allow nothing to remain but faith.
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Day 131 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 6:1–8:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christ as a gift makes you a Christian and nourishes your faith, but Christ as an example moves your faith to do good works for your neighbor.
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Day 130 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Chronicles 2:1–5:14 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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In the gospel is an entirely different, a spiritual government, that exists alone in the Word, by which sinners are convicted and Christ proclaimed.
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