Oliver was a friend, chaplain, professor, author, and loyal church reformer. This Gnesio-Lutheran giant will be missed.
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The Lord’s provision doesn’t rest on the strength of our gratitude.
Just as trick-or-treaters arrive at doorsteps as beggars, we come to the Lord’s table with nothing to offer but our sin and need for forgiveness.
Jesus has instituted his living-breathing disciples, his shepherds in his church, to declare the full forgiveness of sins.
Although Jesus bodily ascended and is hidden from our earthly eyes, he is not far off.
All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
Just as the disciples on the road to Emmaus recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread, so we, through the working of the Holy Spirit, recognize our Lord in the Word and Sacraments.
Jesus does not put us on trial and make us pay for our own sin, but he, himself, is put on trial in our place.
Today, Maundy Thursday, we receive the feast of Christ’s true body and blood for us, for the forgiveness of our sins. All of them.
Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
In Israel, once a year, a priestly climber would reach the peak of a very different kind of mountain. Here's his story.