The Christian is that person who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, his virtues, but in Jesus Christ alone.
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We are no longer to be children ... but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him who is the head, even Christ ...
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The Church of Christ is that congregation of saints in which the gospel is correctly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered.
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All nations — Jews and Gentiles alike — are united in Christ as new man, making peace, reconciling us and our dogmas under his cross.
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One who walks by the Spirit operates under a new obedience, doing even more than the law requires. These fruits of the Spirit do not save but flow from faith.
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God accepts all peoples, all nationalities, all cultures, all races, women and men, old and young, so long as they fear him and do what is right.
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The Holy Spirit, through the Word and Sacraments, works faith in them that hear the gospel, justifying those who believe that they are received by grace for Christ's sake.
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In Jesus is life, and this life is the light of all people. The light, Christ Jesus, shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not, nor ever will, overcome it.
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Romans 3:28 sounds like a sixteenth century Lutheran wrote the words but they were penned by Paul and inspired by the Holy Spirit in the first century.
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Woe to those whose religious demands and pious pretense shut off the kingdom of heaven from people, for they too will not enter the kingdom.
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Eternal God then born human also, Jesus has a dual nature, a shared existence or incarnation. He is God and man at once — God in the flesh.
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The Spirit of Jesus opens our minds to understand the Scriptures so that we may receive the grace of God promised throughout the Old and New Testaments.
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We all need a Savior because we are all sinners from birth. Even those "innocent" little babies need the Savior. Do not hinder them coming to Jesus.
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The law terrorizes the conscience, revealing the wrath and judgment of God. The gospel announces that Christ is come to forgive the sins of the world.
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Lutherans confessed at Augsburg that they believed what the Scriptures say about God, regardless of whether they could reason their way to the doctrine.
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Luther asked about God, "What prompted Him to call me?" The answer was, "His grace alone.” And so, we see that God makes somebodies out of nobodies.
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Christians ought to hope for unity, beginning to do so by considering how they agree on matters of the faith, for we are called to fellowship in Jesus.
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God not only has a plan for your life, he has inserted himself into the center of your life, sanctifying and preparing you for who you are to be for him.
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In the end, at the coming of Christ, “every one must stand on his own feet; his own personal faith is demanded, he will give an account for himself...”
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You had better be careful; scratching that itch will damage your spiritual ears, leading to the inability to hear or endure the truth of the gospel.
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The Small Catechism teaches us that the ascended Christ is “true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary.”
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What is truth? Whose authority should be trusted? Whose words believed. The only reliable source for truth is judging by the standard of The Book.
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He is not two beings, a god and a man somehow in a kind of symbiosis, or a compound or complex organism, two beings, but no longer quite human or divine.
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Religion never equals righteousness. The wise and faithful friend of God understands that she must trust in the Lord’s righteousness and never her own.
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When you were dead in your sins, God made you alive with him by canceling the debt that stood against you, nailing it to the cross.
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What deserves your immediate attention today? God's will? What is God calling you to do today? Something of benefit to your neighbor, your vocation?
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"Now, that sounds believable," said no one ever about the Trinity — unless the Spirit of God is at work in her through the proclaimed Word.
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How much are you required to give to the one who has already given you everything, who wholly loves you? Then again, how much do you want to give?
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Religion, what man thinks he is doing for a god, can trip your up, making you a hater of God and neighbor. Walk away. Walk away to God.
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We have been a great gift from God: the revelation of himself. Otherwise we could not comprehend the Mystery who is God, nor believe in him.
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Now this is the catholic faith: we worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being.
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No one is to be trusted at face-value — neither pastor, professor, pope, or bishop. Examine the Scriptures daily to see if what they say is true.
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One can never ascribe too much glory, goodness, and mercy unto God. But it sure is easy to give man too much glory. This ruins man and insults God.
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The latest theological craze attracts the spiritually distracted like deer to headlights. The more glaring and wilder, the better.
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The whole three Persons are coeternal together, and coequal, so that in all things, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshiped.
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As Luther said, "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it," we must read the Word and pray daily.
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We may hope to see a departed family member in heaven, but for the true believer, there is no greater longing than to be with God on earth as in heaven.
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If you think you stand justified before God because your works are good enough, that you are pious, take heed for you are slipping and about to fall.
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In the creeds, we confess that Jesus really died but was also resurrected from the dead. And so, we confess that we too will be raised as he was.
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God loved you before you had the slightest care for him. He does not need your works in order to love you; he requires your continued faith.
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We’re you baptized into a stream, a pond, a river, a baptistery, a font? Or were you baptized into Christ. If the latter, your sins have been removed.
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Are you hearing things? I hope so, and that what you're hearing is the very Word of God because you're listening there, in the volume of the Book.
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We confess a Church united in its apostolic doctrines and practices, one that is orthodox, rightly teaching the Word and observing the sacraments.
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Truth offends. It is meant to do so, as it exposes sin. Since the inclination of the heart is to sin, then of course, truth will offend human nature.
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Don't trust your subjective feelings. The true and objective way to know God's will and ways is by hearing and reading the Sacred Scriptures.
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We only know about God because he has revealed himself to us. The Nicene Creed speaks specifically here of the ministry of the Holy Spirit, "who spake."
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God does not love us because we are beautiful or brilliant or talented or wealthy. He just loves us—even without all of the religious stuff.
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The Creed helps the uncomprehending to confess and believe the Scriptures so that they may come to understand the incomprehensible.
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Embrace the grace that God has freely given you. Embrace it through faith, not by then trying to pay for it with religious works.
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There is a plurality in God, yet an inseparable unity in the undivided essence whom we refer to in the Scriptures.
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The old covenant of law and blessing has been fulfilled by Christ Jesus. The new covenant is is one of faith and blessing through God's grace to sinners.
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The Holy Spirit is too often thought of as impersonal, a power, rather that the relational third person of the Trinity who is God.
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If you are in Christ who is eternal from the Father, then you are eternal from and in Christ, a citizen of his eternal, never-ending kingdom.
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Those who teach false doctrines in the Church of Christ are "troublemakers," as Luther termed them, and must be corrected.
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The devil wants to do away with Christ's church but with the inability to accomplish that goal, he wishes to water down the Word the church proclaims.
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We confess in the Nicene Creed that Christ Jesus came down from heaven accomplished his Father's will "for us."
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