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Thursday, August 5th, 2010In popular thought, the judgment of God of individuals is something still to come. It is as though God has yet to make up His mind about us. This can be properly understood, in the sense that those who endure unto the end will be saved, as Jesus said, Revelation 2:10,” … Be faithful until [...]
The Prayer of the Church Is the Voice of Faith
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Jesus catechizes His disciples in the way of faith by teaching them how to pray. He promises us: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” (Luke 11:9). If earthly fathers know how to give good gifts to their children, “how much [...]
Don’t Settle For Less
Thursday, July 15th, 2010As we work our way through some of the Epistles this year, we see the sacred writers dealing with issues that arise in the churches. In Galatians, it was those who wanted to make salvation dependent upon keeping certain laws. The Letter to the Colossians provides our texts for today and the next three Sundays. [...]
Pastors Are Bound To The Gospel
Thursday, June 17th, 2010(Regarding Galatians 2:11-21)
In this part of his letter to the Galatian churches Paul is doing at least two things. First, he continues with the point we looked at last week that this gospel is something that is NOT of human origin, but of divine origin. Because of that, as the preceding verses tell us, this [...]
Jesus Raises Us from Death to Life
Thursday, June 10th, 2010St. Paul’s apostolic office was not a self-chosen pursuit, but a divine call to preach the Son of God “among the Gentiles” (Gal. 1:15–16). What he preached was “not man’s gospel” (Gal. 1:11), but the revelation of Christ Jesus. The Old Testament prophets also preached the same Lord Jesus in many and various ways.
Though [...]
Rescued From This Present Evil Age
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010This Sunday we begin a series of six lessons from the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. The Galatian churches were those to whom Paul had brought the saving gospel of Christ during his second missionary journey. These were the cities like Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.
Paul had brought them the good news of [...]
The Good Shepherd Cares for His Sheep
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came from the Father and became flesh among us in order to rescue us, His sheep. He laid down His life for us and took it up again in order to give us eternal life. By the preaching of His Gospel, He calls His sheep to Himself and keeps [...]
God’s Beloved Son Has Redeemed Us
Friday, March 19th, 2010Our life and works apart from Christ, no matter how impressive they may be to the eyes of the world, are ultimately garbage and no righteousness. Rather, it is in the scandalous cross of Jesus that we find our righteousness alone “through faith in Christ” (Phil. 3:9). By such faith, we “know Him and the [...]
Reconciled To God
Friday, March 5th, 20102 Corinthians 5:14-21
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
So from now on we regard no one from [...]
Jesus Rescues Us from Death and Brings Us into Heaven
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The prophet Jeremiah faithfully preached “all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people” (Jer. 26:8). He called the people to repentance, lest the Lord’s judgment come upon them. The violence that Jeremiah suffered for this preaching foreshadowed the cross and Passion of Christ Jesus, who suffered the judgment of God [...]
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