What!? Easter was last Sunday. Yes it was. And it’s this Sunday also…and the next, and the next, and the next Sunday, too.
Not only is it every Sunday…it is every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday , Thursday, Friday, and Saturday also. The Lord raises us to new life in Himself every single day in our Christian life. [...]
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Martin Luther said of the Anabaptists of his day:
“They view baptism the way a cow looks at a new gate.”
They cannot imagine anything that is beyond their own nose. (I threw that last part in)
Martin Luther didn’t think too highly of those that would deny us the assurance that the good Lord Himself [...]
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We believe that it is through the gospel of the forgiveness of sins that Jesus’ power is made manifest in the lives of the believer, and not the ‘Law’. And, we believe, as St. Paul said in 2nd Corinthians, that “the law which came carved on tablets of stone (the 10 Commandments) is the [...]
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It ’s Easter Monday.
So now that we have been totally freed from sin by the Son of the Living God, who’s been raised for our justification, let’s start forging new chains that we may once again be enslaved by “what we do”.
One day of freedom is enough!
The first thing we’ll need are some well [...]
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You are forgiven. Completely forgiven. There’s nothing left for you to do.
The war is over.
Because of Christ’s work for you, in His faithfulness to the Father, and in His suffering and death upon that cross, ALL your wicked sins are forgiven.
No “if’s”, no “and’s”, and no…”yeah but’s”. You don’t have to add anything.
You [...]
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A startling medical discovery was made 52 years ago today by Doctor Swami Jenkins Ali MD, of Hemet, California.
I would never have known of this debilitating degenerative condition, otherwise known as LMD, had it not been for some old medical journals that were piled up in the corner of my garage.
Doctor Ali wrote about his findings, the [...]
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I am half Irish. Today that is more than good enough.
I recently watched a PBS television special from Dublin, Ireland of a group of talented Irish singers and musicians. The venue for the performance was inside a beautiful old cathedral. It made for quite an a emotional and dramatic setting.
I couldn’t help but think if this was not [...]
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That’s right. Too much ‘religion’, in not only the Lutheran churches, but the Roman Catholic churches and the Protestant churches, and the Pentecostal churches, the non-denominational denominations, Baptist churches, yada yada yada….
If we define ‘religion’ as that which we do to ascend to the divine, or grasp some sort of personal spirituality, then there is way [...]
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”We should pray with few words but with deep, meaningful thoughts. The fewer the words, the better the prayer. The more the words, the worse the prayer. Few words and deep meaning are Christian. Many words and little meaning are pagan.”
- Martin Luther
Oh Father, we just want to, and we just need to, [...]
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” The good you do won’t save you… and the evil you do won’t condemn you.”
- Martin Luther
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