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What Did Jesus Purchase?
Jesus did not purchase a pig in a poke. He purchased sinners; he purchased you and me, but he cleansed us with his own blood, holding onto us, then, as priceless pearls, even though these...
Is It Futility, or Is It Hope
O Holy Spirit, intercede for us, and keep us in the true hope of the redemption of the body.
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A Word Creating Life
Jesus creates you and me to be good ground. And he does it by speaking a Word into our ears—he who ears to hear, let him hear.
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The Flesh Wants to Be Strong
There is no better place to be than to be a sinner standing before God in lowliness and weakness, and to know that all things come to us from God only as gift.
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Jesus Brings the Sword
His sword having cut off the old man of sin, Jesus in his Gospel, brings forth the new man of faith.
What Should We Fear?
Fear not. That is the promise to you of sins forgiven, of a life redeemed by the blood of Jesus, of a conscience purified of all guilt and shame in the cleansing of Baptism.
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Let the Nations Be Glad
In all her attempts to conceive of a god, to design a system, to bring submission, order, and peace, our world cannot design the true God. For the true God reveals himself most profoundly in...
To Call on the Name of the Lord
That’s how we come to the Lord’s table: as those with no worthiness of our own, with only sin and shame to bring; with no potential or self-worth, but with only the faith and desire...
Stephen’s Gospel: Prosperity and Passion?
No holier words have ever been spoken on Earth: Lord, do not hold this sin against them.
The Shepherd and Overseer of Your Souls
Jesus is the Shepherd of the Church. He is the Shepherd for you and me and our families. But he made himself our Shepherd not by sheering or butchering, but by dying. He gave himself...