The resurrection means your ultimate problem is no longer ahead of you. The grave is not waiting for you. It is behind you.
Job needs a savior, and he knows it. And in Jesus, he gets one.
On Maundy Thursday, Christ explicitly gave his disciples the new command from which the day takes its name, for the Latin words novum mandatum are the Vulgate’s translation of “new command.”

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Jesus opens for us a way to walk through suffering and to sing our song of salvation as we talk to our heavenly Father.
When Luther was in the pulpit, he was teaching, and when he was in the lecture hall at the podium, he was preaching. Linebaugh’s outstanding book will help contemporary pastors to do the same.
I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.
In the Old Testament all the world is narrowed down to the people of Israel, which is eventually narrowed down to One—Jesus! Jesus is Israel reduced to one in order that all the world might be saved through Him.
What we have in our reading is a picture of how God deals with a lack of understanding.
This voice of Jesus is the same voice which now beckons us to see anew how God in Christ is at work anywhere and everywhere.
If preaching can be a greater joy for myself and my people, who after all have to put up with us preachers, that is a win in my book. And I think preaching by heart can help to accomplish this.
If you sit where Joseph sits, then you also face the choice that Joseph faced. Do you respond with vengeance?
On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
Perhaps the question that needs answering is, “How?” How can we run the race? How can we be good shepherds of the flock? How can we live and walk as part of the flock?
Today, Jesus comes as your Good Shepherd. You recognize His voice.