St. Mark's Lutheran Church Join us each Sunday for Worship at 11:00am.
Click the blue "Worship Online" button above.
Click address for directions: 5202 Mooresville Rd, Salisbury, NC
Daily sacrifices were performed at the temple in Jerusalem because God commanded. Sacrifice was done as an outward expression of grateful dependence upon God.
Even the saints of old understood the kind of worship that expected blessings from God. It may not have seemed like they understood anything but a quid pro quo religion.
Justifying faith, properly understood, includes these three things. First, that a promise has been made. God has promised to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all ...
If a promise is made, faith—not work—is required. This is true in human relations and it is no less true in the relationship between the human and the divine.
We should certainly offer our whole selves to God (Rom 12:1). Yet, to imagine that this appeases God's wrath or earns justification and salvation is self-deception.
Knowing stories about Jesus is not faith. Faith is a matter of the heart over the head. Faith trusts that God loves me even when I think that he cannot.