We are invited to entrust everything to the one who accomplished what we could not: living and bleeding and dying and rising again, so that “whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). To put it another way, when it comes to the kingdom of God, there’s no room for DIY’ers. Best leave it to the professionals.
We live in the “already” but “not yet”. Peace is already ours but not yet. The resurrection is already ours but not yet. Justice is already ours but not yet. Until then be comforted by the fact that you are reconciled in Christ on account of his life, death, and resurrection.
Luther neither removed the Apocrypha from the Bible nor discouraged its use. Rather, he received and preserved the ancient distinction inherited from the fathers: the Apocrypha is valuable, edifying, and worthy of reading, but it is not Holy Scripture and therefore cannot serve as the foundation of Christian doctrine.

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Martha’s pain is not met by a to-do list. Jesus’ reply is not that she should try harder or change her behavior
The entrance of children into the world reminds our world of the hope of redemption in Genesis 3:15.
The grass withered for them too, but they held on to God’s Word. They knew that was eternal, so they lived in it. They lived in his forgiveness.
Here is the foundational cure for the evils of racism in human society, faith in Christ as definitive for racial identification.
Christian hope means always hope in God and hope in Christ simultaneously without distinction.
With the resurrection of the Christ the mystery of life after death became a lot less mysterious.
There is no life when one is separated from the Promised Land because that will be the place where God will send His Messiah.
Death may speak, and its voice may sound authoritative and decisive. Nonetheless, it is a mere whimper from the grave.
Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance pours patience and hope into the way we think and the way we experience life.
Jesus is coming again to renew all things. It may seem somewhat hidden right now, but make no mistake, hope abides.
As we close out an old year, Saint Silvester can remind us God is the Lord of history and He has used and is using even people whose lives sink largely or totally into obscurity to keep the confession of our faith in Jesus Christ alive.
This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.