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Fun Word Friday: Are you saved? How? When? – A Higher Things® Video Short

Are you saved? How do you know? Where do you point? Your savior, or your decision? Jesus is the One who saves, we are the ones who receive salvation from Him. Salvation in Christ is by grace alone through faith, not by our works, decisions, choices, improvement, or anything that we do.

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Bible Study Thursday: (Gal 4:16)The Gospel trumps a preacher’s delivery-A Higher Things® Video Short

When given the choice between winsome people, slick words, a great delivery, and good works of the Law…and the forgiveness of sins won by Jesus on the cross and delivered to you in water, word, bread, and wine… You’ve got to stick with Jesus! Because the other thing damns. What’s most important is the Gospel. That alone saves you.

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The Largely Catechized Life

You can’t eat for someone else

“On this account it is indeed called a food of souls, which nourishes and strengthens the new man. For by Baptism we are first born anew; but (as we said before) there still remains, besides, the old vicious nature of flesh and blood in man, and there are so many hindrances and temptations of the devil and of the world that we often become weary and faint, and sometimes also stumble.”

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Christianity and Abortion – A Higher Things® Video Short

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Out of Context Tuesday: The Fruit of the Spirit vs Works of the Flesh – A Higher Things® Video Short

The fruit of the Spirit is actually singular (not the fruitS of the Spirit). The works that we do are self-evident…and plural. One Lord, one faith, one baptism…produces one fruit which flows from faith, because it grows from a good tree.

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Mondays in the Psalter

Monday in the Psalter – Psalm 119:137-144: Zeal for God’s Commandments

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137 Righteous are you, O Lord,
and right are your rules.
138 You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness
and in all faithfulness.
139 My zeal consumes me,
because my foes forget your words.
140 Your promise is well tried,
and your servant loves it.
141 I am small and despised,
yet I do not forget your precepts.
142 Your righteousness is righteous forever,
and your law is true.
143 Trouble and anguish have found me out,
but your commandments are my delight.
144 Your testimonies are righteous forever;
give me understanding that I may live.

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Lectionary Monday: The Thankful Samaritan and what we learn from him – A Higher Things® Video Short

10 lepers were healed, 1stuck around to thank Jesus and worship Him as God. And that guy was a Samaritan — not a faithful Jew. The point of the story is not to command us to be thankful, but to see that thankfulness is a fruit of faith. All 10 lepers got healed. 1 had faith to see the gift for what it was, and the Gift-Giver for Who He is.

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Fun Word Friday: Christianity and Aliens (Storm Area 51 edition) – A Higher Things® Video Short

They’re storming Area 51 this weekend. If they find evidence of alien life, what effect does that have on the Christian faith? Actually…none. Because your faith is not based on whether there’s life elsewhere in the galaxy. It’s founded Christ and Him crucified.

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The Largely Catechized Life

The more the Supper depends on us, the less we can depend on it.

“For here we conclude and say: Even though a knave takes or distributes the Sacrament, he receives the true Sacrament, that is, the true body and blood of Christ, just as truly as he who [receives or] administers it in the most worthy manner. For it is not founded upon the holiness of men, but upon the Word of God.”

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Bible Study Thursday: What your pastor wants from you (Gal 4:13-15) – A Higher Things® Video Short

Your pastor isn’t so worried about gaining your respect, having you like him, or getting paid lots of money (those things are all nice, of course). What your pastor wants is for you to believe the Words he preaches to you as an ambassador of Jesus. More than anything else, he wants you to repent of your sins and receive the forgiveness that is yours in Christ.

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