Lectionary: Series A (543)
  1. To dwell with a Holy God in their camp, Israel lead holy lives. Anything standing in the way of and threatening this holy relationship must be avoided or eliminated.
  2. It is that love, finally, which comes back again and again, not as an afterthought, but as the underlying theme of the entire section.
  3. These parables invite us to consider the mysterious way of the reign of God. The Kingdom of God comes by grace to those who are seeking and not seeking it.
  4. In Christ, God promises to forgive sin and bring about new life: Life after being canceled.
  5. The Earth itself, into which the blood of Christ seeped, will be redeemed and renewed, just like our spirits in Holy Baptism, just like our bodies on the day of the resurrection.
  6. If you do not know who your God is, you will not know what your idols are.
  7. We cannot control the resistance of people to God’s Word, but we can trust in God’s power and promise to work through His Word.
  8. Our passage from Romans steers us between these two dangerous misconceptions: The mythical monster Scylla of believing the body to be evil on the one shore, and the beast Charybdis of believing the body constitutes all there is on the other.
  9. The message is clear and assuring—the Word of God does what it says it will do!
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