How do you keep your family safe? We live in a dangerous world. There is so much that can hurt people. We naturally want to help the people we love navigate the dangerous shoals of a sinful world. But we’re not the only voice that’s trying to get their attention. We are competing with voices of friends, voices on the …
Monday, June 22, Genesis 13 7 — The closest we may come to Abraham and Lot’s problem today might be an inheritance. Instead of quarreling over your inheritance, would you say to your relative, “You take the first choice”? Abraham made such a compromise because he trusted that the Lord would take care of him and the Lord did. Read …
Dear Trinity family, Here’s today’s WELS Devotion. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. But there were also false prophets among the …
When Jesus called Matthew, Matthew wasn’t one of the good people. He was despised by good people. He was considered a traitor. He made his living by taking money from his own people and giving it to the Romans. Then he took even more for himself. Matthew was not one of the good guys. Matthew was a tax collector. Matthew …
The apostle Paul was an amazing servant of God. He spent his life going from place to place sharing the Gospel with everyone he met. He was arrested, imprisoned, beaten, whipped, shipwrecked, and under constant pressure. He planted churches wherever he went. And he wrote almost half of the New Testament (at least 13 of the 27 books). Where does God …
Dear Trinity Family, Here is today’s WELS devotion. When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.Matthew 7:28,29 Some religious leaders teach a list of things that you have to do to get to heaven. At first, their teaching …
God called Moses into his service at the burning bush. Why Moses? Moses had already proven himself a failure at delivering God’s people. He was an exiled killer, living in the wilds of Midian after fleeing the court of Pharaoh. No wonder Moses asked, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh?” Moses was unworthy. Moses was unwilling. Moses …
Dear Trinity family, Here is the latest devotion from Synod. The God of love and peace will be with you.2 Corinthians 13:11 Scott Stossel is a highly respected journalist. He is a graduate of Harvard. His abilities and work ethic have brought him to the point where he now serves as editor of The Atlantic magazine. Those who work with him have …
Monday, June 15, Genesis 7 v. 2 — The extra clean animal apparently was for sacrifice. (cf. 8:20) v. 11 — How long was Noah in the ark? Check 8:13-14 for the answer. v. 16 — The Lord shut them in. When we are in the Lord’s hands, we are completely safe and secure. Read Psalm 46 in connection with …
Matthew chapter 7 is then end of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The verses we are going to read are the very last words of the sermon. These are the words that Jesus left ringing in their ears. After teaching about an impressively wide array of divine truth, Jesus left them with two warnings and a promise. What warnings do …
