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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"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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