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You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
Your champion steps forward.
The Lord is coming, that much is certain. He is coming to reign, not only over the heavens, but also over the members of your congregation.
Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
On this Maundy Thursday, in particular, let the “for you” of Christ’s gifts dominate.
When explaining that sinners were saved by grace alone Erasmus would not go so far as to say that the reception of God’s grace erased human responsibility.
The expectation of the Old Testament is NOT first and foremost obedience, but rather adoration!
This is not a plea for us to be given the strength to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. It is our helpless cry when boots – straps and all - slip off the edge of temptation’s cliff.
The Old Testament lesson for this Sunday, October 7, 2018, is from the first book of the Torah, Genesis. The text is Genesis 2:18-25 and centers around creation, especially the creation of woman.
True preaching arises when the Holy Spirit steeps the proclaimer in its own cycle of judgment and mercy.
Blessedness comes to us camouflaged as simple earthly words, water, bread and wine.
How strange and yet how comforting: God prays to God for us, the Spirit to the Father. He sees through the fog of our emotions to what we truly need.