Lent (309)
  1. But this is not a story of Jesus being taken many places. This is a story of Jesus remaining in one place and deepening in His love of the Spirit and the Father.
  2. The main point Paul has been getting at in Romans is what God has done in the One man Jesus the Messiah—the rightful heir of God’s earthly kingdom—is far, far more than simply putting the human race back where it was before the intrusion of sin.
  3. The Seed of the woman is he who will crush the head of the evil one and restore man to a right and proper relationship with God.
  4. John Pless offers thoughts on preaching for your midweek Lent sermons.
  5. This post contains notes on orders of service, texts, and hymns for your midweek Lent services.
  6. This article begins an eight-part series inspired by the Lenten themes of catechesis, prayer, and repentance found in the Lord’s Prayer as Luther taught it in his Small Catechism.
  7. The Scriptures are not a collection of platonic ideals laid out for us to strive after. Rather, they are God’s truth given to His beloved church.
  8. We live because Christ did not remain in the grave but rose to life.
  9. Maundy Thursday is only the beginning of the long, grievous road Jesus must take before “it is finished” three days later.
  10. In the midst of our suffering, grief, and distress, David gives us words to confess.
  11. The pain of God’s silence strikes Jesus harsher than any nail ever could. “For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me?
  12. It is an ineffable mystery that God suffers, and our preaching must bear out that mystery. One can only emphasize that God is truly man and that God suffers and dies on account of the personal union. But we do not emphasize the suffering apart from the divine nature, or as if the divine nature was not fully His at particular moments. The personal union causes us to deal with the whole Christ.
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