Lutheran churches carefully teach about faith in the absolution, reminding Christians of the great consolation it brings to anxious consciences.
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We are not called to defend Peter’s cause, or the cause of our parents, or that of the government, or that of the world, but unyieldingly, the cause of God.
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We must be as determined as the Apostle Paul to stand up with the simple but powerful gospel message of nothing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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Holy Communion is not a potluck that feeds the belly. It is a means of grace in which people are assured that they receive the forgiveness of sins.
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Where the Church is, there will also be the poor, for the world and the devil persecute the church and end up impoverishing many faithful Christians.
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As was the apostolic practice and that of the Fathers, Holy Communion belongs to the whole church, not just to those who can afford it.
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As was the apostolic practice and that of the Fathers, Holy Communion belongs to the whole church, not just to those who can afford it.
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Differences in whom we preach the gospel to ought not to hinder our fellowship and Christian friendship, since we preach the same gospel.
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When you hear that people receive the Christ through the simple preaching of faith, do you glorify God for his grace in the ministries of others?
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Since the beginning of the world, nothing that God ever ordained seems to have been so abused for the sake of generating revenue as the Mass.
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Those who are called to ministry will often enough have to patiently endure adversity in order to fulfill their ministries of preaching the Word preach .
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It was taught that one could purchase a Mass to be said for himself or a dead relative as a way of earning merit with God, reducing time in Purgatory.
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Paul and Peter received their powerful authority from God, who gave of the same Spirit to Luther, and today gives to you in whatever vocation is yours.
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It is God's will that we receive his grace through the means of Holy Communion, and do so often, as we sinners need his grace very much.
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Enforced celibacy is man's answer to a human problem with sin; it is not God's answer. The Lord's answer, his intention and institution, is marriage.
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Peter is not the chief Apostle, as all of the apostles were equals, having the same charge and the identical gospel of Christ Jesus to proclaim to the world.
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The following are links to three different daily devotionals: Comments on Galatians – Comments on Galatians with an ear to Luther’s commentary Reading the Word with Luther – Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions – Scripture related to a short reading from the Book of Concord, with commentary pulling the two together Coming in 2022: Reading the Bible in a Year
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When family and friends refuse to hear the message of the gospel, like Paul, we must turn to others, even the whole world, with the good news of Jesus.
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When we change the plain meaning of God's Word or remove verses that offend us, we offend God and are condemned by the very words we omit.
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God has stepped into the world bringing his grace to all who believe through the preached word that God saves through faith in Jesus Christ.
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Corruptions had begun to creep into the church, and reform was badly needed so that people's hearts could again be comforted by the mercy of God.
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We may suffer the loss of our good name, of life itself, but we must not lose the gospel and our faith in Jesus Christ, nor stand for those who would rob us of faith.
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The emphasis of the Confession remains upon Christ rather than tradition, in the authority of God instead of human invention, practices, and teachings.
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Lutherans aim to imitate the lives of the saints but not venerate them, as to pray to them for help or expect such aid from any but God in Christ's Spirit.
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Be careful to not attach so much importance to any person — be she mother, doctor, president, pastor — that she is remembered and God forgotten.
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We are to esteem the Word of God, not people, whether presidents or preachers, authors or musicians, persons or personalities. The Word!
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Doing good works as conditional to salvation is impossible since one cannot begin to love God or do good works until filled with the Holy Spirit.
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If one takes the sum of the apostles, including Paul, then too, Martin Luther, Billy Graham, and the Pope, the gospel is still more excellent and true.
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Lutherans confess that it is necessary to do good works because it is the will of God, these works contributing nothing to salvation but being evidence of it.
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What does the Scripture say? Always appeal to the Word of God and be careful you are not using the Word to defend a personal viewpoint.
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True faith is that which trusts in the only God as a Father who loves and forgives, giving comfort and support where once there was worry and fear.
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When Jesus is not lifted up and glorified by a religious work, but instead, the so-called righteous deed is honored, then the deed is beyond suspect.
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The conscience is plagued with guilt when one relies on good works for righteousness with God, instead of relying on Christ alone through faith.
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Christians strive to live by God's rules but do not depend upon them for salvation, but on the grace of the one who rules over the rules.
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The doctrine of justification by faith alone brings the greatest consolation to the conscience since good works depends on us but faith depends on Christ.
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If we do not believe that faith in Christ is the only thing that can justify us, the death and resurrection of Jesus are without meaning, and a Savior is relegated to myth.
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The Lutherans, in teaching justification by faith, were not introducing a novel doctrine, as it had been taught by the Apostles and the Church Fathers.
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Our works cannot appease God or earn forgiveness of sins, grace, and justification. We obtain this only by believing we are favored only for Christ's sake.
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We refuse to have our consciences bound by any work or law that says by doing this or that we are righteous, or leaving this or that undone we are damned.
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True faith lays hold of Christ and trusts in him alone, something that the spiritually blind cannot see, that the unbelieving considers foolishness.
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Though Lutherans confess that God's grace alone justifies a person without adding a single virtuous act, they believe that good works flow from faith.
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God did not create evil but he did create humans with the ability to be disobedient to his good will, to sin, and we call this disobedience evil.
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Faith looks to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, not to the works one has done, whether they are religious in nature or civil, nor to works left undone.
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Let us get to work, but not depend upon our works or hold them conditionally over the lives of others. Faith — in Christ alone — saves.
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Lutherans confess that that they are unable to attain to the righteousness of God, and are entirely dependent upon God's grace from start to finish,.
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Be careful that you do not hold over the head of someone else your own brand of Christianity, your dogma, instead of offering the free grace of God.
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Jesus Christ is returning to earth on the last day of time to judge the living and the dead, sorting out believers to heaven and unbelievers to hell.
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Lutherans teach that the sanctification of Christians does not come from doing or not doing things, but with what Christ has done for us on the cross.
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The fathers were not justified by circumcision. To them, it was a sign and seal of righteousness, and viewed as a confession of their faith.
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It is easy to get distracted when people start talking about religious rules — unless your faith is about Christ Jesus instead of traditions and rules.
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The human heart must be constantly reminded that Christ is the end of the law but that there are “profitable” things we still do — yet not as obligation.
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