Bible Study
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Proper 14 • Ephesians 4:17–5:2
This pericope is typical of the latter portion of Paul’s letters, that is, it deals with everyday matters of the Christian life
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Proper 27 • 2 Thessalonians 2:1–8, 13–17 • November 10, 2013
Paul’s purpose is to quell fears that the day of the Lord has already come, to confirm these believers in their call to faith, and…
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“I Make These Confessions My Own” Lutheran Confessional Subscription in the Twenty-first Century Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand
The spirit of Augsburg and the method of the Wittenberg theologians carry the content of the Lutheran confessional documents into the many societies and cultures…
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Faithful Witness in Work and Rest
Faithful Christian witness in work starts with the value of the work itself, in its own right, not as a means to some other end…
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Epiphany 3 • Isaiah 9:1–4 • January 26, 2014
The unrepented sins of Israel received their due; so the sins of our age will not go unpunished by God unless people confess their sins…
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“Daddy, Will Animals Be In Heaven?” The Future New Earth
A New Heaven and a New Earth or a recreated Heaven and Earth as God had always intended.
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Proper 19 • James 3:1–12
Christians are absolutely forbidden to speak evil of other people—even if what they say is technically “true.”
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Christmas 1 • Isaiah 63:7–14 • December 29, 2013
Deluded by the illusion of self-mastery and bolstered by the culture’s eager affirmation of the supremacy of the individual, autonomous man is as resistant to…