Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Matthew 4:1–4
When at table, and we consider all of God’s benefits, we must not think only of those things that go into our mouths. We should also give thanks for what comes out of God’s mouth.
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Scripture Text: Colossians 1:15–17
Once again this morning, I looked for Corona virus news in the local paper. Specifically, I was looking for news about social isolation and stay-at-home orders.
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Scripture Text: Colossians 1:9–14
When we return thanks to God, our gratitude should not be merely for the food and drink we have received from him. We should be thankful for all his benefits.
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Scripture Text: 1 Peter 5:6–7
What is your concern, perhaps even an anxiety? Your heavenly Father cares for you, so he shares your concern—though it is no cause for angst in him.
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Scripture Text: Exodus 16:22
There are many lessons to be learned in this one verse. Let us learn one: that we may depend upon God for our daily bread, just as that wilderness congregation could.
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Scripture Text: Exodus 16:10
It seems, these days, that I am looking forward to going to bed as soon as I wake up each morning. When I was a young man and earlier, a teenager, going to bed was the last thing on my mind
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: John 15:9
Jesus wants us to do more than follow him. Following Jesus is the starting point, from which eventually, there must be something more, lest following becomes stiff habit and we hang dead upon the vine.
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Scripture Text: John 14:31
“Go to your work with joy” does not mean that you love your work. It means you love the one you work for, and who is with you while you work.
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Scripture Text: John 14:1
I used to sing quite softly, especially in worship. Because I was unsure of my voice, I held back for fear of sounding worse to others than I did to myself.
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 15:51–52
We entrust ourselves this day to the care of the one who will bring us into everlasting day. As eyelids flutter into wakefulness, our sleeping eyes will be instantly awakened.
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 15:49
Luther encourages us to give thanks for making it through the night. That idea has a little more gravity when there is a global pandemic. So, we should thank God for each new day.
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: Exodus 12:42
The ordinance of the Passover provided a way for Jewish people to remember who and whose they are. In this observance, they remembered how the Lord delivered them from more than four centuries of slavery in Egypt.
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Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 15:28
I love that Richard Pryor line toward the end of the movie “Silver Streak” when a gunfight has broken out between the FBI and criminals. Bullets are flying everywhere and Pryor, hunkered down behind a 55-gallon drum, has had enough of the chaos.
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 15:1–4
Belief is the key to readiness. Do you believe that you are a sinner? If you do, then you are almost ready for the table. Do you believe that Jesus died to save sinners?
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Peter 3:18–19
All of our religious devices will never set us free from sin and death. Prayer will not do it, nor will Bible reading, Sunday School, or going to church.
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 11:27–29
I would sit in the pew, trying to decide if I had been good enough in the past week to receive the bread and the wine. Of course, I was not good at all, nor would I ever be good.
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Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 3:12–16
We cannot read the law with veiled hearts and expect to find the grace of God. All we sense is God’s displeasure. So, we cannot expect the law to come to our rescue.
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Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 1:9
The struggle to be righteous is a desperate effort. There have been times when considering my life—my thoughts and actions—I nearly despaired.
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Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 1:5
How solitary sits the city, how lonely and desolate. This is the lament of Jeremiah over Israel. Jesus grieves similarly over the people because they are without a shepherd.
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Scripture Text: Exodus 9:20–21
Be sure you do not get caught out in the field with your cattle. God’s forgiveness is abundantly available—even to pharaohs, even to sinners. Just come in from the storm.
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Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 3:18
Holy Communion is a turning to the Lord, and in it, we behold his glory. Furthermore, the table is a sort of mirror in which we may begin to behold ourselves as God sees us.
Lessons in the Lutheran Confessions
Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 2:15–16
What a pleasing fragrance arises to God when his church believes the gospel by eating and drinking in remembrance of Christ Jesus. The aroma of our witness extends horizontally as well.
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