Jesus Sends to You the Holy Spirit
What belongs to Jesus is the righteousness of the cross. The Holy Spirit gives that to you.
We Are People of the Water and the Blood
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER May 6, 2018 1 JOHN 5:1-8 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has...
Entangled Branches
We are branches along with one another, none of us making ourselves to be a branch, but all of us engrafted by the vine, Jesus. It is pure grace.
Joy in the Heart
Jesus comes to the sinner, he comes to us, he sees the trembling conscience, and he says, Peace to you.
Peace to You
There is no sin, no guilt in our consciences, no shame covering us, from which Jesus has not cleansed us with his own blood and spoken us forgiven of in his word of Absolution.
Where Jesus Is
We will find the Living One wherever he places his Name and has his cross preached. For he promised that wherever he gathers two or three to his Name, there he is in the midst...
The Seven Words of the Cross
Made Holy by the Body and Blood
We receive this holy Body and Blood for the forgiveness of our sins, and we then embrace one another as those who are made holy by the Body and Blood.
Rejoice, O Church
He is bestowing salvation as he provides us with the body and blood that rode into Zion, that was then crucified on the cross, and that on the third day was raised up from the...
He is Our Servant
To be gathered into the Church means to look at Jesus and say, “There is the One who is my servant, serving me with his gifts.” “I came not to be served,” said Jesus, “but...