Are you gracious or harsh and demanding of others? We must show mercy and grace to our neighbor, as we have been shown these by Christ.
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Day 41 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 26:1–27:34 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God can bring life and healing to the lives of others through your faith, as seen in biblical examples like the centurion who had faith for another.
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Day 40 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 24:1–25:55 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Jesus came to earth to do his Father's will, to die for a world's sin. It was his passion, his Plan A; there was no Plan B.
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Day 39 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 22:1–23:44 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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All works are good, so long as they are done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for his glory, as directed by him rather than by one's own ability.
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Day 38 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 19:1–21:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Don't you love a good mystery, one told well and ends well? That is what Jesus came to proclaim, a mystery for the ages revealed for you.
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Day 37 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 16:1–18:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Peter's and Luther's doctrine of the priesthood of believers is central to Paul's teaching on honoring weaker members of the body of Christ.
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Day 36 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 14:1–15:33 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The gospel leaves us no room to doubt the Lord's favor, for the first and the last to believe his word will receive his eternal and generous salvation.
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Day 35 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 11:1–13:59 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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When there is but infinite day, we will require faith no more, nor hope. Love is the permanent thing, and therefore, the greatest of the three that now abide.
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Day 34 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 8:1–10:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Come to Christ because you are a sinner, not because you think he must have someone as great and pious as you. Come with faith in him, not in yourself.
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Day 33 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 5:1–7:38 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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A Christian does not live life aimlessly. This life is a race to the prize, eternal life in Jesus Christ, and so, must be run with passion and purpose.
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Day 32 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Leviticus 1:1–4:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Seek! Search! Look everywhere else. But you will never find Christ Jesus anywhere else but in the holy Scripture. The Spirit will reveal himself there.
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Day 31 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 39:1–40:38 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Take the Word of God "as it stands," as it is written, and be transformed by the Holy Spirit who works through that very Word in all his people.
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Day 30 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 36:1–38:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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A Christian glories in the things of which other men are ashamed — in the cross and in his sufferings. For the world will not long endure the Word.
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Day 29 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 33:1–35:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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As much as you are able, live in peace with all; spend time with those of humble circumstance. Be a blessing to your neighbor.
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Day 28 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 30:1–32:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Marriage, because it is God's institution, will be a difficult work, as the flesh will resist and rebel, as it always does against doing God's will.
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Day 27 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 28:1–29:46 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Love desires the best for its neighbor, even when one's neighbor does not desire the best for you, so one must pray for them even when they are not neighborly.
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Day 26 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 25:1–27:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Jesus allowed for believers and unbelievers alike in the church, so that both might be spared, believers from violent uprooting, and unbelievers an opportunity to believe.
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Day 25 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 22:1–24:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Each Christian has been given a calling, and with that calling a particular gift or gifts to fulfill the calling. These do not make her better or happier than another.
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Day 24 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 19:1–21:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God permits us to fail in order to make us seek him in his Word. Do not despair when things do not go your way. God is calling you.
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Day 23 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 16:1–18:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Paul does not put much emphasis on foretelling the future, but on the explanation of the Scriptures, so that there may be faith in the gospel.
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Day 22 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 13:1–15:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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May we be content with the gospel, with what is written, for it contains all that God wants us to know about himself, all that we need to know.
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Day 21 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 10:1–12:51 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Love is virtue pure and precious. It neither utters, nor thinks any evil of its neighbor. It rather covers sin; not one sin, nor two, but a “multitude of sins.”
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Day 20 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 7:1–9:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Our worship and good works are to be done for Christ's sake, not because we think that we earn salvation through our deeds or piety.
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Day 19 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 4:1–6:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Good and bad happens to bad and so-called good people alike. The difference is how one responds, and why, and from where their peace comes.
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Day 18 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Exodus 1:1–3:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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If salvation in Christ's light is to be brought about, all other righteousness in ourselves, sought outside of Christ with works, must be rejected.
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Day 17 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 48:1–50:26 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Christians are not to be ruled by their feelings or reasoning, for these are matters of their will. But God's will revealed through his Word transforms them.
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Day 16 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 46:1–47:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Simeon was not impressed by appearances and so, could bless Christ Jesus. If appearances are our motivation, we will not bless Jesus.
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Day 15 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 43:1–45:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Let us be clear; Luther is not saying that God rewards our works and obedience with salvation. God grants salvation through faith in his grace alone (Eph 2:8–9).
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Christians are priests, each and every one of them, and as priests, are to offer acceptable sacrifices to God. That sacrifice is self for the honor God.
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Day 14 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 41:1–42:38 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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This section of John’s gospel is not in the earliest manuscripts. The story intrigues me, nonetheless. We wonder what Jesus wrote in the dirt. I like to imagine it was the name of a woman each of the accusers had secretly committed adultery with...
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What to expect from a visit to St. Paul's Lutheran Church any Sunday morning
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We must have faith in the Word, not in what our senses tell us. Feelings are secondary (at least) and are to be subordinated to "what is written."
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Day 13 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 38:1–40:23 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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To be sure, the precise meaning of today’s verse is that one who reads the Revelation to the church is blessed. The church is also blessed if they listen and obey.
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Christians should not curse—in the sense of wishing evil in a person's life. However, Christians are to censure and reprove evil in the hope of good.
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Day 12 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 35:1–37:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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There is more to being persuaded than for a child to believe the Fourth Commandment. Another side of the persuasion is adults teaching it to the little ones.
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God allows suffering to guard against presumption, as example to others to repent, and as preparation for finding Christ, and keeping him.
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Day 11 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 32:1–34:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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One must walk in God’s light; you cannot invent your own well lit pathway. God is the way, so we must walk in his truth. Many would spin God’s truth into their own brand of truth...
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The sacrifices of the Old Testament are fulfilled in the one sacrifice of Christ Jesus so that we may offering the living sacrifice of faith in everyday life.
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Day 10 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 30:1–31:55 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Would you do things to brighten your standing with God? Then you would simply shine with your own dim, human qualities. The Christian, however, reflects a divine glory...
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Having Christ's Spirit within us, we are to love our neighbors so fully through that it seems as though we are indebted to love our them.
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Day 9 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 27:1–29:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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When the scroll of life is opened, what will it say about you? How will it record your response to the great commandment? Will you have loved the Lord your God so much as to believe in him and take him at his word?
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Love of neighbor does not justify us to God. Faith in God does however, compel us to love our neighbor, and this is evidence of faith, and love of God.
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Day 8 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 25:1–26:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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Faith embraces its vocation because it is freed to do so, because it trusts in another. The one who has faith, trusts in God instead of his or her own talents, work ethic, labor, or cunning.
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The light exposes the darkness of human reason, doctrine, and works, and displays our need of the grace and glory of he who is Light from Light, true God from true God.
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Day 7 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 22:1–24:67 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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Should the created vaunt itself over the Creator? This logic follows downward. Next to the Father come father and mother, those whom God has put in charge.
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The magi may not have known who the newborn king truly was, but you and I are called to attend to our vocations, then think only how we may know Christ.
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Day 6 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 19:1–21:34 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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If you will not do your job, it will be taken from you. Parenting is important, especially godly parenting. There is no difference between the old leaders of Israel...
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The gospel is not the light but the expression of that eternal Light that has risen upon us.
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Day 5 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 16:1–18:33 in your favorite translation, solve today's Word Search, and solve the online jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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Why does God promise such a great blessing as long life? How does it work out that his promise may come to pass? He does so by delivering the faithful from sin and its consequences.
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This video was recorded in 2021, just as I was packing up my old study to move it to St. Paul's in Salisbury, NC.
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Day 4 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 12:1–15:21 in your favorite translation, solve today's Word Search, and solve the online jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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Looming heartbreak had brought the disciples to the point of collapse, and so naturally, they were dead to the world when Jesus returned to them.
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Day 3 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 8–11 in your favorite translation, solve today's Word Search, and solve the online jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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Your beliefs, especially doctrine about Christ, must come from the Scriptures. Rest your faith on Christ as found in the Word alone.
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These traditions that we have learned from our parents (if only our parents in the church) are a great and lifelong blessing. Through these, God is faithful...
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Just as little as it lies in one’s power to be born and to receive natural existence, so little does it lie in his power to be without sin or to escape from it. He who created us must take it away.
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Day 2 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 4–7 in your favorite translation, solve today's Word Search, and solve the online jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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Most of us have encountered a willful child whom we conjectured would either not live a long life or would be the death of his parents. But there is more to being an obedient child than civil order.
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We have received a mark, the sign of God's hand upon us. We are sealed with God's promise of salvation and eternal life through baptism and faith.
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Day 1 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Genesis 1–3 in your favorite translation, solve today's Word Search, and solve the online jigsaw of today's Scripture graphic.
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These verses urge us to honor those who do the principal work of ministry in congregations. But it is good counsel to think of our parents along these lines too.
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You can't wrap your mind around the Trinity. God is above the world and very different. We cannot imagine. So, God reveals himself and those with faith believe what he says about himself.
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Day 365 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Revelation 20:1–22:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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We garner our initial knowledge of the Lord in the home. There, we learn how to honor our parents, and in so learning, we learn that we are not the center of all things.
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