Pentecost (57)
  1. We know how to get money. We have all kinds of ways to do that. But the question remains: How do you get Christ?
  2. The best way to get at the Gospel in our Amos reading is to connect it to Christ. It is too easy and tempting to associate it with social justice today. Our people will not need much encouragement to go there. What they need is the surprising and salvific connection to Christ
  3. For all the fault we have in our married lives, God has given us not just a helper, but a Savior.
  4. Through Christ, we have the full outpouring of the Holy Spirit rather than the limited pouring out we see with Moses in the book of Numbers.
  5. Even if you have to die and go down into the grave, God will raise you again because His Word for you is true
  6. Jesus' active obedience is what saves you from your active sinning. He took your sin to the cross and that one act of obedience is what led to your justification by grace through faith on account of His glorious resurrection.
  7. He is a God who changes curses into blessings. We see that clearest in Jesus, whose life, ministry, atoning death, and glorious resurrection is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
  8. God does not leave His people alone, to find their own way and stumble around in the dark. The Lord goes with them in His Word.
  9. It is the humble who will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. Or, as Jesus said it elsewhere in Matthew: “The poor in spirit are blessed because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.”
  10. Joshua is not offering Israel a choice. Really, he is giving them an option which is a “non-option.”
  11. The great Gospel comfort in our text is that the Lord is not through with us either, and He will not let us die or despair. Instead, He provides everything we need for our journey in life through His Word and Sacraments.
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