The Purpose of Christ’s Miracles In His Epiphany “These [miracles] are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His Name.” — John 20:31 The word …
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“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto Thy Name, O Most High; to show forth Thy lovingkindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness every night.” — Psalm 92:1-2 It is a …
“Be ye followers of God as dear children.” —Ephesians 5:1 We often speak of ourselves, referring to our Lutheran heritage, as “children of the Reformation,” as those who are, by God’s grace alone, the beneficiaries of Luther’s monumental work of …
“Ye shall be witnesses unto Me.” —Acts 1:8 The holy Epiphany Season is traditionally that time on our Christian church calendar during which we focus particularly on mission work. Jesus, our Divine Prophet, is of course our perfect example in …
“It is expedient for you that I go away.” —John 16:7 If they had been left to their own fleshly, weak, and earthbound reason to “muse” about Jesus’ comings and goings and to answer to their own short-sighted satisfaction the …
“This is the day which the Lord hath made! We will rejoice and be glad in it! —Psalm 118:24 The Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord is indeed the most joyful, the most uplifting, the most exhilarating day of …
MOTTO: “That there be no divisions among you.” I Corinthians 1:10 Appropriately named for the large oak trees which line many of its streets and grace its recreational areas, Oak Park, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, is located immediately …
“Wherefore He saith, When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. …And He gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints …
“…for our offenses.” —Romans 4:25a We Lutherans are often accused of being “obsessed with terminology” when we teach and discuss the doctrines of Holy Scripture, terminology that is nowhere found in the Bible and terminology that hopelessly confuses all but …
“From that time forth began Jesus to show unto His disciples how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.” …
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