Day 119 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:55 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The forgiveness of sins is available because we admit our condition, the need of a Savior, and the truth that the Father sent his Son into the world to accomplish this very thing once and for all.
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Through Christ's death, you are redeemed from sin and death, raised to an imperishable life you cannot yet perceive in yourselves except through faith.
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Day 118 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 23:1–25:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We believe in the forgiveness of sins. Pardon does not come by once being forgiven and then no longer sinning. The forgiveness of sins comes to us for his name’s sake, in other words, through the name of Christ.
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We do not have to win any battles, but only to keep the victory that has already been won, by holding onto faith in Christ and his cross.
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To keep company with the "weak Christ" is the highest wisdom on earth, and a second is like it, to bear with his weak followers, the church.
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Day 117 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 20:1–22:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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“I don’t have to go to church to be a Christian,” he told me. Then he added, “The Bible doesn’t say I have to go to church.” I was so informed by a police officer in the process of a raid on a house.
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Unbelief is the greatest sin there is, for it cares not for God or at least, cares little for him who is to be loved with one's whole heart and entire being.
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What is this holy catholic church? Let us look to the defining words; and let us do so in reverse order, allowing the descriptive words to address the direct object. What is the church?
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Day 116 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 18:1–19:37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 116 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 15:1–17:41 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If we agree with Luther’s teaching on the third article of the Creed, we are acknowledging that we cannot climb our way to God. We are conceding that we cannot even believe in God without the Holy Spirit’s assistance.
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The true church is not known by its government or its name but because it is known by its Shepherd and knows him, having faith in him alone.
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Jesus did not leave his disciples alone when he ascended. Nor are we alone today; he has given us the same Spirit, his own Spirit, “the Spirit of Christ.”
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Scripture teaches that we cannot be saved by our own works, but through hearing and believing by the power of his Spirit that Jesus is the Christ .
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Day 115 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 12:1–14:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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There is a great Day coming when we will be raised bodily from the dead, but in the meantime, we are being raised spiritually into a better existence.
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We come now to Luther’s teaching on what good it is to know this second article of the Apostles’ Creed. These benefits include the confident hope of redemption, freedom, inclusion, eternal life.
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Day 114 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 9:1–11:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Peace of heart does not come from good works.
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Day 113 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 6:1–8:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Father has appointed Christ alone to judge the world — both the living and all who ever lived. Christ must be the judge of the living and the dead because he is the only one appropriate to the task.
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Christ cannot remain in death — although he may suffer death by reason of his human nature — yet he must of his own power rise from the dead.
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works can never make a conscience be at peace.
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Day 112 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 4:1–5:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The world, seeing no wrong with itself, does not receive one part of Christ's word, reproval, and so, seeing no need of it, cannot receive his grace.
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Being at the right hand of the Father means that Christ Jesus is seated on the throne of all thrones. He has power and authority which excels all others.
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Jesus ascended; he was raised to the Father's side in heaven so that he may share in the fullness of divinity. He is not simply God, nor only a man; Jesus is now God in the flesh, seated at the Father's right hand.
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Day 111 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 1:1–3:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christ is the righteousness of Christians before God, going to the Father, that is, suffering and rising for us, and thereby reconciling us to the Father.
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How to sleep peacefully
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Day 110 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 21:1–22:53 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The role of the pastor or shepherd is to feed the sheep, and to protect them from all evil, which begins and ends with proper feeding from the Word.
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We cannot live with Jesus in eternity if he is not there. If God's Christ is still dead and buried in the ground, we cannot live with him in heaven — nor can we live there without him.
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Day 109 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 18:1–20:43 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Do not celebrate a specific day but what happened on that day.
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Be careful that what you hear from the pulpit is the sure Word of God instead of those doctrines that suit a pastor's or denomination's agenda.
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In reference to yesterday's lesson on Christ Jesus preaching to those spirits in prison, many people want to know who these spirits are and what this prison is exactly. It is enough to know the universality of Christ's sovereignty.
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Day 108 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 15:1–17:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We are not to trifle with the Scriptures, else there would then be no reliable and permanent foundation whereon the conscience may rely.
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This is the sum of the gospel.
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It is a mystery to me why people want to get rid of the word "hell" in the Apostles' Creed. Are they afraid Christ Jesus cannot handle the place of the damned?
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Day 107 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 12:1–14:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Without the resurrection, we have nothing.
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Only devout, childlike people may grasp and understand the Bible, those who say by God's grace that because he has said it, then they do believe it.
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In order to emphasize the fact of Jesus’ death, the creed states that he was buried. Burial is necessary for those who are truly human and have died. In other words, Jesus was not an apparition; he was a man who had actually died.
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It is not enough to know the historical fact of Jesus, but to also know that he calls us dear brothers, infusing his own righteousness and glory into us who believe.
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Scripture is the best commentary.
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Did Jesus really die? If he is God, can God die? Some say that he did not actually die. It is called the “swoon theory,” meaning Jesus only fainted on the cross, was presumed dead, then carried off to his grave.
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Day 106 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 10:1–11:43 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is comforting to hear Jesus tell us that his Father is also our Father, for as Jesus returns to him, we too, will one day ascend to our God in heaven.
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Day 105 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 8:1–9:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Why did God come to earth in human flesh? Why lower himself to such a level (if it really is such a low level)? God did so because love made him do it.
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Hell has no hold on those held by Christ.
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I can't help myself.
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Jesus, innocent man and holy God, was condemned to suffer the cruelest death the Romans had at their disposal. He would be crucified. His crucifixion was mere expedience in Pilate’s mind.
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Day 104 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 6:1–7:51 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is comforting to hear Jesus tell us that his Father is also our Father, for as Jesus returns to him, we too, will one day ascend to our God in heaven.
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Jesus was born of the virgin named Mary but he was conceived by God. The Holy Spirit was the fathering agent, therefore the holy child was of two natures: divine and human. Jesus was born in “the likeness of men," that is, he is similar to a man.
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Christ lay in the tomb for a part of three days, rising on the third, but what we should note is not so much the number but the fact that he truly died.
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Day 103 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 3:1–5:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 102 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 1:1–2:46 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Why do bad things happen to true believers?
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We moderns, especially in Western cultures, tend to speak of the heart as being an emotional vessel. In the consideration of the ancient Hebrews, the heart was the seat of thought and will, as well as emotion.
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Jesus calls us his brothers, not because of anything we have done to merit this inclusion in his family, but because we believe on him for salvation.
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Day 101 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Samuel 22:1–24:25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God's Word and works in the Sacraments are not idle, but instead set people free from sin, death, the devil, and every sort of fear.
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Quit trying to fix yourself.
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As Jesus is master over life and death, so he is Lord of all things in life and death. He is God over all creation: in heaven, on earth, and even under the earth.
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Who needs Slim Jims when God is your portion?
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Day 100 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Samuel 19:1–21:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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You may be a birthright Jew, or a birthright Quaker, but without being born again, a salvation through the Word of Christ, there can be no salvation.
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Thomas, the perennial doubter, at seeing his crucified rabbi alive and standing before him, confessed what John had related at the beginning of his Gospel.
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Bad things can happen for strange reasons.
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As Abraham did not spare his own Son when God commanded it of him, God did not spare his own Son when his will demanded it of himself. Through this precious, only Son, he has redeemed the creation he loves.
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When we receive Holy Communion, we should be careful to increase love, to find our neighbor who is in need and reach out to him in Christ's name.
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Day 99 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Samuel 16:1–18:33 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 98 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Samuel 13:1–15:37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If you would be a Christian, then you must not be terribly alarmed or impatient at the the torments of the world and of the devil.
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As we weakly work out our salvation, God declares his power against the devil and his kingdom.
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Just as God settled among his people in the Old Testament, God now “tabernacles” among those who believe. He does so through his Son, Christ Jesus, who is the exact image of God.
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We have the clear Word of God as testimony for us who believe, that Christ gave himself as a grace to be received in the bread and wine of his table.
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Sometimes the Old Testament speaks of the king as an anointed one, a person on whom God’s blessing rests. A priest would pour a flask of oil over the king’s head as a symbol that God had anointed him king.
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God's power is perfected in our weakness.
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Day 97 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Samuel 8:1–12:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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May you be a fresh lump with whom Christ Jesus being worked in, that the grace and power of the Spirit may continue to work out your salvation.
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The name “Jesus” is the Greek form of the Hebrew “Joshua” (which later morphed into “Jeshua”) which means “the Lord saves.”
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Day 96 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Samuel 4:1–7:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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“This is most certainly true!” declares Luther. “What is truth?” responds Pilate. The Truth was standing right in front of him, and he dismissed him as though truth were too difficult to nail down.
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Then what becomes of our boasting?
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Day 95 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Samuel 1:1–3:39 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The one who desires Holy Communion should receive all of it, not the bread alone but the cup of the New Covenant in Christ's blood as well.
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"The baptized Christian is born a citizen of heaven through baptism. We should be mindful of this fact and walk here as if native there."
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What is being created in the image of God?
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