August 21, 2016

Posted on Aug 19 2016
  The Lord’s Prayer Martin Luther’s Small Catechism The Fourth Petition Give us this day our daily bread.  What does this mean? God gives daily bread, even without our prayer, to all people, though sinful, but we ask in this prayer that he will help us to realize this and to receive our daily
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Sunday, August 7

Posted on Aug 12 2016
JOB 42=”AND JOB LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!?”   Bible Background: The first 6 vs. of #42 are in the ‘poetry’ form of most of the book, and Job responds humbly to God’s speeches. He is a changed man! Then the book picks up the ‘prose’ form that this
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Sunday, August 14

Posted on Aug 12 2016
  The Lord’s Prayer Martin Luther’s Small Catechism   The Introduction Our Father who art in heaven.  What does this mean? Here God encourages us to believe that he is truly our Father and we are his children.  We therefore are to pray to him with complete confidence just as children speak
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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Posted on Jul 29 2016
JOB 38–42 GOD SPEAKS, JOB LISTENS-AND SEES!   Bible Background: Job has demanded and dreaded a ‘hearing’ before God. God’s speech is divided into two parts (#38–39, and then #40–41). Job gets in just a word of humility in between (41:3-5). The divine
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