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As we continue to march on into the Advent season, our fundamental focus remains that Jesus came to establish peace between the LORD and sinners.  God the Father sent His promised Messiah, His Savior-Son. Jesus redeemed us through His perfect life, sacrificial death and victorious resurrection. The Holy Spirit grafted us to God’s family tree […]

This “Last Sunday of the End Time” closes the current church year. As we look back over this past church year, we know Jesus remained our ruling King controlling “all things for our good” (Romans 8:28). When we look forward to this new church year, we trust the same and look forward to Jesus’ second […]

How can we, as poor sinners, stand acquitted before a just and holy God? Who has met our Lord’s demand, when He insisted: “By holy, as I the LORD God am holy” (Leviticus 19:2)?   There are two ways sinful humans have tried to be right before God. One way fails to comprehend how sinful we […]

The Broadway musical writer, George Gershwin, once commented, “The things that you’re liable to read in the Bible…it ain’t necessarily so.” What can we conclude from such an opinion? To this day people think in their sinfulness that the solution to sin and God is to deny them or at least minimize their significance. Regardless […]

“Complacency” and “Contentment” may be near each other in Webster’s Dictionary, but Scripture sees them as worlds apart. One is abhorred by the Lord and the other He tells us is of great gain. The prophet Amos warns against attachment to worldly things that makes one spiritually complacent.  St. Paul also points to the dangerous […]

Money and wealth rule in today’s materialistic society. That materialistic mindset—as illustrated in today’s Old Testament lesson—can affect all making one easily forget that God is the One who blessed us with many physical blessings. How we handle those blessings, however, whether they be dollars or possessions, reflects our relationship with our God.  In the […]

St. Paul confessed as “the chief” of sinners, “This saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance: ‘Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,’ of whom I am the worst” (1 Tim. 1:15).  God had mercy on Paul to “display His unlimited patience” (1 Tim. 1:16). Similarly, the LORD “turned from His fierce […]

Life in the kingdom of God is often opposite what the world expects it to be. The world expects someone who does a hard job to be paid well; the world expects those who are the best at something to win an award; the world expects those in high positions to be honored. But we […]

The way to heaven is narrow, because there is only one way to enter.  As Jesus Himself declared, “I am THE way and THE truth and THE life.  No one comes to the Father except by Me” (John 14:6).  Therefore, it is only through faith in Jesus as our Savior that we can enter heaven, […]

The life of the believer in this world is marked by difficulties. Often it seems that unbelievers have easier lives in this world—consider what the LORD’s inspired writer pens in Psalm 73.    In reality, however, the life of unbelievers may be easier on this side of eternity in some respects, but they are not better.  […]