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.
The confessors at Augsburg remind us that every generation of Christians is called to bear witness to the gospel amid the challenges and pressures of its own age. As they confessed Christ before emperors and kingdoms, so the Church continues to confess Him before the world today.

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This is the first direct promise of the Seed who will reunite all mankind to God by defeating Satan on the Cross.
Christian peace is not the absence of problems, but it is the presence of God amid our pain and sorrows.
The LORD God had promised He was coming, and they were certain there could be no better time for Him to fulfill His promise.
With a new year comes many new things. In the corporate world, we again introduced to our yearly performance review.
Proper preaching of good works is never for our encouragement.
Every age gives cause for both hopefulness and despair.
I woke up this morning feeling restless. It could be the 7,000 holiday calories I have eaten every day for the past two weeks or it could be that a new year has started and so follows the resolutions.