A P R I L 1 3 “I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” — Luke 19:26

Don’t Confuse Activity With Growth

There are a lot of people who are like a little boy riding on his rocking horse. There is a great deal of motion and action, but very little progress. A lot of people in the church are like that. They may go through a lot of motion, be involved in all sorts of things, but they do not really make progress in their spiritual life. True use of the means of grace: i.e., the Word and the Sacraments, will inevitably cause us to grow because grace... More

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A P R I L 1 2 “And other seed fell on good ground, and it yielded grain that sprang up and increased by thirty, sixty, or a hundred times as much.” — Mark 4:8

Divine Growth

Divine grace always grows. The good seed of God will inevitably grow. There is no doubt about it. Place a live bulb in the ground; and a stalk and buds will appear, and the lilies will eventually sway in the breeze. Put a post and a sapling into the ground and what happens? Immediately the post begins to decay and the sapling begins to grow. Come back twenty years later and, should the post still be there, you will find it completely decayed,... More

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A P R I L 1 1 “For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.” — Matthew 25:29

Use It or Lose It

As we continue to look at this verse, we note that many people often lament the fact that it seems that the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Money makes money; nothing succeeds like success. However, this is a principle Christ built into the universe and enunciated in his earthly ministry. The essence of that principle is: Use it or lose it. Money does not make money, unless it is put to use. In the parable of the talents, there... More

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A P R I L 1 0 “For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.” — Matthew 25:29

Ultimate Success, Ultimate Failure

In the Greek text the words of Jesus have a certain forcefulness about them that often is lost in the translation. I read the words of Jesus after one of His judgment parables in Matthew, “Then He will say to those at the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels’” (Matthew 25:41). I thought to myself, “What must it be like for a human being to actually... More

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A P R I L 9 “If Christ has not risen, then our preaching is vain,and your faith is also vain.” — 1 Corinthians 15:14

If Christ Has Not Risen

Some people begin with the assumption that miracles don’t happen; therefore, Christ could not have been raised from the dead. But this does not explain any of the facts. It is also circular logic. It’s merely a presupposition that disallows the possibility of the resurrection. But the truth is that Christ rose from the dead. The greatest problem mankind has ever faced, generation after generation, century after century,... More

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A P R I L 8 “…to whom He presented Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, appearing to them for forty days…” — Acts 1:3

He is Risen Indeed

When Jesus walked out of His own tomb 2,000 years ago, He changed all of history. His appearances to His disciples are crucial. He appeared to one, then to another, then to two, then to three and then to eight and ten and eleven and 500 people at a time, over a period of about six weeks (1 Corinthians 15:4-9). They saw Him, they heard Him, they handled Him. He fixed breakfast for them. He ate fish with them (John 21:7-15; Luke 24:42-43).... More

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A P R I L 7 “The next day John [the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.’” — John 1:29

Christ our Passover

In the obdurate hardness of his heart, Pharaoh had defied the Almighty God. So God had sent onto the land of Egypt plague after plague with ever-increasing severity. The tenth was the most severe. It is this one that gave rise to the Feast of Passover. At God’s instruction, the Hebrews were to take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood from an unblemished lamb, and strike the lintel and the doorposts of their houses. They were... More

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Don’t Confuse Activity With Growth

Divine Growth

Use It or Lose It

Ultimate Success, Ultimate Failure

If Christ Has Not Risen

He is Risen Indeed

Christ our Passover