The Christian Life
Reading the Word with Luther
Series: Reading the Word with Luther
Scripture Text: Luke 17:11–14
The Christian life does not need much doctrine, nor many books. Indeed, the Christian life is wholly contained in faith and love.
MoreThe Christian life does not need much doctrine, nor many books. Indeed, the Christian life is wholly contained in faith and love.
MoreDay 279 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Matthew 13:1–14:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreFaith is everything and saves us, and on this account we are not idle but labor much for the benefit of our neighbor, for we have enough in Christ.
MoreDay 278 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Matthew 11:1–12:50 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreIn the end, we will not see a single thing we would like to have. But faith is the principle by which we secure what we do not see. We must fully trust God...
MoreDay 277 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Matthew 9:1–10:42 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MorePaul urges us to hold steadily to what we have received by walking as he does; shaping their belief and conduct by the pattern we have received from him.
MoreDay 276 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Matthew 7:1–8:34 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreDaily Bible Readings for the Week of the Nineteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year Two
MoreFaith in Jesus Christ is nothing but real help and pure grace. God designs to have me as his child in Christ, placed above all things temporal and eternal.
MoreDay 275 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Matthew 5:1–6:34 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreLet us guard against everything that makes for only a show, and not reject what does not make a display, so that we do not reject Christ and God.
MoreDay 274 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Matthew 1:1–4:25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe witness of the Holy Spirit within you is the power of the Holy Spirit working through the Word, a confirmation being that you have pleasure and delight in God’s Word.
MoreDay 273 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Malachi 1:1–4:6 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreYou have the power to speak the Word; whoever believes has forgiveness of sins. If they believe not, then what you speak avails nothing though it be God’s Word.
MoreDay 272 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Zechariah 8:1–14:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreGod would not have us be overanxious for our life, but labor and commend our anxiety to him, so, he does not allow us to have another Lord besides himself.
MoreDay 271 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Zechariah 1:1–7:14 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"The eternal Son of God was from the beginning with his church and with the people who received the promise of his coming in the form of man."
MoreDay 270 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Haggai 1:1–2:23 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe man who lies half dead, wounded and stripped of his clothing, is all mankind. The Samaritan is our Lord Jesus Christ Cling to him, your only help.
MoreDay 269 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Habakkuk 1:1–3:19 and Zephaniah 1:1–3:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreDaily Bible Readings for the Week of the Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year Two
MoreWe must lay hold of the gospel in such a way that we may stand and say: “Not because a certain one taught, do I believe ... the doctrine itself is right."
MoreDay 268 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Nahum 1:1–3:19 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe widow's misfortune is portrayed here so that we might learn that with God nothing is impossible, whether it be misfortune, calamity, anger, or whatever.
MoreDay 267 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Micah 1:1–7:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreJesus freely gives me his life with all his works, so that I may appropriate them to myself as a possession that is my own but is bestowed upon me as a free gift.
MoreDay 266 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Obadiah1:1–21 & Jonah 1:1–4:11 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"Human nature alone will never be able to accomplish what God requires in this commandment, namely, that we surrender our will to the will of God..."
MoreDay 265 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Amos 6:1–9:15 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe more misery and death are in us, the more richly we may find comfort and life in Christ Jesus, provided we hold fast to him by faith through his Word.
MoreDay 264 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Amos 1:1–5:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreWhat would all the riches and nobility of the world be compared with being named and chosen by God himself, called his son, the heir of exalted divine majesty?
MoreDay 263 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Joel 1:1–3:21 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreChristians need not waver, nor stake their affairs on that which is uncertain, vainly caring for the future, but at all times do that which is right.
MoreDay 262 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Hosea 8:1–14:9 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreDaily Bible Readings for the Week of the Seventeenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year Two
MoreDo this for the honor of God and for your own benefit: strive after the great and eternal good. If you attain and keep this, the rest will surely take care of itself.
MoreDay 261 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Hosea 1:1–7:16 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe preaching of the precious gospel offers God’s grace and mercy in Christ, which is offered to condemned sinners without any merit of their own.
MoreDay 260 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 10:1–12:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreIf overcome by wrath and led to rashness, do not continue in it, do not harbor it, but subdue and restrain it, the sooner the better.
MoreDay 259 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 8:1–9:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreTo love God with all the mind is to cleave to him who is our chief good, to do nothing against his will, to take nothing except what is pleasing to God.
MoreDay 258 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 4:1–6:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreIf you would be freed from your sins, do not chastise yourself with them, but seize Christ, the one who has taken your sins upon himself.
MoreDay 257 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Daniel 1:1–3:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"Wherever God’s Word is preached, there is God’s own true house, there God most certainly dwells with his grace. Wherever his gospel is, there..."
MoreDay 256 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 46:1–48:35 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreLove of money is a root of all kinds of evils. Through this craving some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
MoreDay 255 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 43:1–45:25 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreReadings from the Daily Lectionary for the Week of the Sixteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year Two
MoreThe lepers went boldly to meet Jesus, certain that he could heal them. Standing in firmness and sincerity against doubt, they confidently prayed.
MoreDay 254 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 40:1–42:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreYou need no longer be afraid of condemnation because of your unworthiness for you have the consolation of faith, the assurance of grace.
MoreDay 253 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 37:1–39:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreFaith grows out of the Word of God, producing the good fruit of love and mercy and all manner of godly care for one's neighbor.
MoreDay 252 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 34:1–36:38 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreClick here for an online jigsaw of the above Scripture graphic. Daily Psalm readings are found here. Daily Word is here. L: O Lord, open my lips, C: and my mouth shall declare your praise. C: Glory to the Father, and to the Son†, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. C: Alleluia! Alleluia! One of the following ANTIPHONS may be sung or said with the INVITATORY PSALM. During the weeks of Pentecost L: Give glory to God, our light ...
More"It assuages and comforts the sufferer beyond measure to know that he does not suffer alone, but with a great multitude."
MoreDay 251 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 31:1–33:33 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreGod has opened the treasures of his holy gospel to us, so we may learn his will. Will we believe and know peace or disbelieve and suffer wrath?
MoreDay 250 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 28:1–30:26 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"We should therefore despair of ourselves and pray to God for faith as the apostles did. When we have faith we need nothing more..."
MoreDay 249 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 25:1–27:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreOnce we have been baptized into Christ and believe, his will is that we should then live accordingly, obeying God and doing what is commanded.
MoreDay 248 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 23:1–24:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"Christ commands the disciples to set the loaves before the multitude, by which he shows that he will administer his work and gifts through the instrumentality of human agencies."
MoreDay 247 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 21:1–22:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreReadings from the Daily Lectionary for the Week of the Fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year Two
MoreWhat would it help the critics of Christ if the gospel was preached twice as clearly as it is? They are so deafened by their own conceits that they can hear nothing else.
MoreDay 246 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 18:1–20:48 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"When we come before God the Father, Christ will say: Father! Although they have not wholly fulfilled thy law, yet I have done so, let this be to their benefit because they believe in me."
MoreDay 245 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 16:1–17:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreMorning and Evening Psalms
More"Oh, how heavy and terrible the impending judgment for those who have denied to Christ the Lord, in his thirst, even the cup of cold water."
MoreDay 244 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 13:1–15:8 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreLuther uses the this story to illustrate how office of ministry brings the Word to people so that they may hear and be given faith to believe.
MoreDay 243 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 9:1–12:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreThe Spirit impresses Christ and his works upon the heart, making it a true book which does not consist in tracing mere letters and words, but in true life and action.
MoreDay 242 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 5:1–8:18 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreRally Sunday 2026 photos, videos, and story
MoreGood works do not make one pious or good. One must first be good and pious at heart. The tree must first be there to bear the fruit.
MoreDay 241 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Ezekiel 1:1–4:17 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreReadings from the Daily Lectionary for the week of the Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A
MoreSo much of what false teachers' have afflicted the church with in recent decades is easily overcome by exercising judgment through the Word.
MoreDay 240 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Lamentations 3:37–5:22 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreNo one thinks of saving for posterity, but live as if they rejoice in destroying everything at once. Yet in all this destruction God will nevertheless help us.
MoreDay 239 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Lamentations 1:1–3:36 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"All who faithfully cling to the Word of God will be fed by God; for that is the nature and power of faith, which flows alone out of the Word of God."
MoreDay 238 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 51–52 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreOur eternal life, attained through faith in Christ. will be to know God, delight in his wisdom, and enjoy the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
MoreDay 237 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 49–50 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"The chief thing that should influence a Christian’s outward walk is the remembrance of his calling and appointment by God."
MoreDay 236 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 46–48 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
More"To be 'led by the Spirit of God' means to be given a heart which gladly hears God’s Word and believes that in Christ it has grace and the forgiveness of sins."
MoreDay 235 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read Jeremiah 42–45 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
MoreA description of Rally Day 2026 events and Christian education at St. Paul's
More"It is natural for us to feel hurt when suffering, injustice, and violence attack us...it becomes necessary to check and restrain the feelings of anger..."
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