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Scripture Text: 2 Corinthians 3:4–6
It is a glory that every preacher may be able to say with full confidence that he trusts God for teaching and preaching truly the Word of God.
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Scripture Text: Luke 5:4
Christ keeps aloof from lazy, unfaithful idlers who will not do as they have been commanded, and will not keep their hands and feet from straying.
Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings
Scripture Text: Luke 5:4–10
Christ has not come to make you afraid, but to remove your sins and distress from you. “Fear not,” he speaks to your heart, and to the whole world.
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Scripture Text: 1 Timothy 6:6–10
The curse of humanity is they shall never be satisfied and must endure heartache and everlasting destruction through the things they have coveted.
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Scripture Text: Luke 15:3–7
If you only remain under Christ's protection and lie still upon his shoulders, you need not be troubled about sin, death, or hell, for he defends you.
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Scripture Text: Genesis 7:23–8:1
No life is so difficult as the life of faith, depending only upon the promises of God when the who world seems to say, "God has forgotten all about you."
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Scripture Text: Romans 11:33–36
Scripture shows us that in God there are three persons — not three Gods or three kinds of divinity, but the same undivided, divine essence.
Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings
Scripture Text: Luke 15:1–5
We are to cover the shame of our neighbor with our own honor and piety, not cause wounds caused by gossip that we cannot heal.
Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings
Scripture Text: Luke 15:1–2
Luther writes that, "We should rebuke and deal with the sinner in earnest; yet we are not to despise but sincerely to love him."
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Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 12:1–3
"The tongue of a minister — the language he employs — must be of that simplicity which preaches naught but Christ," and brings him the glory.
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Scripture Text: Luke 24:36–43
We are not to be deceived by so-called ghosts, which are not souls but instead, demons bent on misdirecting a believer's focus on the living Christ.
Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings
Scripture Text: Genesis 8:20–22
Even pious people can scarcely stand firm, often being entangled by gross sins and natural corruptions, for original sin is complete lawlessness.
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Scripture Text: 1 John 3:13
We teach all to trust in the grace of God, not in their own worthiness, and to render him gratitude for his grace. This is intolerable to the world.
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Scripture Text: Romans 6:15–16
Although the Christians senses within himself the presence of evil thoughts and lusts, yet his faith and the Holy Spirit remind him of his baptism.
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Scripture Text: Psalm 33:4–5
God showers his gifts on an ungrateful world, whose people go about their lives as though sight and hearing were due them. And so, we miss God's grace.
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Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 4:1
Christians do not follow pastors; they follow Christ Jesus. Pastors preach the gospel, a message that leads lost sheep to the one who saves them.
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Scripture Text: Genesis 6:8–10
Noah is called “just” because he first believed, then “perfect” (“upright”) because he walked in the fear of God and conscientiously avoided sins.
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Scripture Text: Luke 15:1–2
The religious people were enemies of Christ because of the people Jesus called his friends: sinners who wanted to follow him.
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Scripture Text: Luke 14:23
When one senses his wretchedness, then is the time to believe in Jesus Christ. There are no other means to save you, save be baptized and believe.
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Scripture Text: Psalm 46:1–3
"Christians have regard for God’s Word and believe that God cares for them. They commend all things to him and at his word go on with courage."
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Scripture Text: John 3:14–15
"Reason argues: You have sinned, you must also atone for your sin. The gospel of Christ says: You have sinned, another must atone for you."
Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings
Scripture Text: Genesis 7:1
We are in the golden age because we have the light of God’s Word and the sacraments are rightly administered in our churches.
Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings
Scripture Text: Romans 6:20–23
The service of righteousness in Christ has the double blessing of a clear conscience before God and the rich and incorruptible reward of eternal life.
Scripture and a reading from Luther's sermons and devotional writings
Scripture Text: 1 John 3:13–16
Faith is not an inactive and lifeless thing. When there is faith in the heart, its power will be manifested toward God and one's neighbor.
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Scripture Text: John 20:26–29
It is by the power of the resurrection of Christ that Thomas, and us, who are so deep and obdurate in unbelief, are so suddenly changed.
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