Around the Word 4.12.20

Christ is risen from the dead. The wages of sin have been paid, which means that death’s power and authority over creation are undone. Those who belong to Christ by faith will rise with him in victory from the grave. Alleluia!

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Around the Word 4.7.20

In today’s meditation, we learn about the Christ’s humiliation unto death, even death on a cross. Because he suffered under the weight of God’s wrath against the world’s sin, we are lifted up by God’s gracious favor.

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Examples of Liturgical Fasts in the Bible

Can the church can be the true body and bride of Christ without regularly scheduled services and when it doesn’t have easy, immediate access to the Lord’s Supper? When we, by our own will, make the choice to despise God’s preaching and means of grace, we sin by breaking the third commandment. But what if God takes the services away and limits access to the means of grace? This is a good question for faithful Christians who laudably love the reverence of ordered worship and weekly reception of Jesus’ body and blood but are now trying to figure out if we can remain faithful while being isolated at home.

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Around the Word 4.1.20

Today’s devotions are from Genesis 12 where God calls Abram out of idolatry in his father’s house to be the father of blessing to the world through the Seed that would be born from his line.

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Around the Word 3.31.20

Today’s devotions focus on Hebrews 9:11-15 where we learn about Christ bearing his own blood into the Holy Place, not made by hands, to make eternal atoning redemption for the sin of the world.

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