A Blessing to the Sinner
The question is whether or not your sin is counted against you. Or was it counted against Christ? If Christ took it, it his.
Rejoicing in What Jesus Does for Us
Jesus does it all for us. He’s baptized to be numbered with us and to take our sin upon himself. He is driven into the wilderness to be afflicted with our every temptation, yet without...
The Gift of Repentance
Now we see repentance as gift. We don’t bring it on ourselves. It is the Lord’s work.
The Veil is Removed
How is the sinner to be able to come to the Lord’s Table and receive the Body and Blood not in fear, but in the confidence that this Body and this Blood, they are for...
The Lord’s Delight
We still live in the old world of death under the Law ... At the same time, simultaneously, we live in the new world of the life of the resurrection, the world of God’s...
When Devils Are Made Silent
If these people in Capernaum were astonished, then the demons who bring the accusations to keep sinners under the power of the Law, the demons are more than astonished; they are mortified, they are made...
A Gift to Nineveh, A Gift to Us
Nineveh’s real problem was not that they were great sinners. It was that they had no way to be cleansed of their sin.
When Jesus Meets the Sinner
Nathaniel now has his Rabbi. Standing in front of him is the Word of God in flesh, the Torah in human form; it is Jesus, God the Son.
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A Baptism Pleasing to Heaven
What pleases the Father in Heaven is that his holy Son, the giver of all life, takes the guilt and shame of the sinner upon himself. For the Father loves the sinner, and knows that...
Fear not. I bring you the Gospel
The Baby Jesus did not come in our hearts; he came in a certain specific location, Bethlehem of Judea.