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10 mins read|04/09/23This is the prelude of Easter. Is a dead Jesus still resting in the tomb? No!
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13 mins read|01/07/21Epiphany celebrates that we have not been left in our hearts’ cold darkness and this spoiled creation.
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12 mins read|11/26/20We are given, so we give thanks, and we give thanks by giving.
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19 mins read|11/18/20The following is an excerpt from “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory” written by Steven A. Hein (1517 Publishing, 2015).
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12 mins read|07/11/19In truth, forgetting transgressions has little to do with forgiving others who wrong us.
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9 mins read|10/03/18We are saved by grace, and strictly speaking, not by an offer.
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9 mins read|04/25/18The Gospel predominates when hearers receive the saving gifts of Christ as God’s final word to them.
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13 mins read|11/06/17The Devil cultivates fear of God and promotes motivation and zeal for outward works and earthly virtue out of pure eternal self-concern.
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11 mins read|04/14/17The story of Christ crucified has a happy ending. Jesus has conquered the grave. He beat the death rap.
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8 mins read|10/31/16Lose trust in the free grace of the righteousness of Christ alone, and the holiness of the Church and all in her is lost.
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8 mins read|03/30/16There is an unfortunate, but familiar pilgrimage that entirely too many have taken—servants who have offered strong confession and service in the pure Gospel, but who then have doctrinally gone astray.
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10 mins read|11/25/15To be justified means to be declared righteous in the forgiveness that is ours in the crucified Christ. It is a done deal, and by faith we have it all.
