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Proper 9 • 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 • July 5, 2015 Exegetical Notes, Andrew Bartelt Sep 2015

Proper 9 • 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 • July 5, 2015 Exegetical Notes, Andrew Bartelt

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Beyond conflict resolution lies a whole new way of defining reality, not by might or by power, or even by spiritual gifts or by healings, or by how God answered my prayer my way, but by the cross and resurrection.


Homiletical Helps On Lsb Series B—Epistles Easter 6 • 1 John 5:1–8 • May 10, 2015, Thomas Egger Sep 2015

Homiletical Helps On Lsb Series B—Epistles Easter 6 • 1 John 5:1–8 • May 10, 2015, Thomas Egger

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Homiletical Helps on LSB Series B—Epistles Easter 6 • 1 John 5:1–8 • May 10, 2015


Faithful Witness In Suffering And Joy, Jeffrey Oschwald Sep 2015

Faithful Witness In Suffering And Joy, Jeffrey Oschwald

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Hardly experts on the subject of joy, we can at least become students of joy and suppliants of joy, and someday, perhaps, even coworkers of joy through faithful witness.


Easter 4 • 1 John 3:16–24 • April 26, 2015 Preliminary Considerations, Victor Raj Sep 2015

Easter 4 • 1 John 3:16–24 • April 26, 2015 Preliminary Considerations, Victor Raj

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Christians do not simply resign from this world of harassment, resentment, and sorrow, but endure hardship trusting in the reconciling love God has lavished for them in the Lord Christ.


Easter 3 • 1 John 3:1–7 • April 19, 2015, Paul Raabe Sep 2015

Easter 3 • 1 John 3:1–7 • April 19, 2015, Paul Raabe

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Being Like Jesus The almighty Creator, through the atoning death and bodily resurrection of his incarnate Son, has given you his wondrous love.


Lent 5 • Hebrews 5:1–10 • March 22, 2015 Sermon Notes, Andrew Bartelt Sep 2015

Lent 5 • Hebrews 5:1–10 • March 22, 2015 Sermon Notes, Andrew Bartelt

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The end result (telos) of Christ’s high priestly work, which was “made perfect” or complete when he himself cried, “It is finished,” is the “eternal salvation of all who obey him”


Lent 1 • James 1:12–18 • February 22, 2015, William Carr Jr. Sep 2015

Lent 1 • James 1:12–18 • February 22, 2015, William Carr Jr.

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We need to let James be James. We ought not try to make him sound like Paul, or John, or Peter, or anyone else.


Transfiguration • 2 Corinthians 3:12–13 (14–18); 4:1–6 • February 15, 2015, David Lewis Sep 2015

Transfiguration • 2 Corinthians 3:12–13 (14–18); 4:1–6 • February 15, 2015, David Lewis

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As Paul uses this image of the veil to describe what happens with unbelievers when they hear God’s word, this image should not be directly applied to believers today as if they are still impeded by such a veil.


1–3 John. Concordia Commentary Series. By Bruce G. Schuchard, Robert Yarbrough Sep 2015

1–3 John. Concordia Commentary Series. By Bruce G. Schuchard, Robert Yarbrough

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The commentary will prove particularly valuable to seminary students seeking to get a feel for these epistles’ message in light of ongoing scholarly discussion.


Epiphany 4 • Micah 6:1–8 • February 2, 2014, William Carr Jr. Sep 2015

Epiphany 4 • Micah 6:1–8 • February 2, 2014, William Carr Jr.

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We are the beneficiaries of God’s new and, indeed, greater paradigm, Christ.


Advent 3 • Isaiah 35:1–10 • December 15, 2013, Jeffrey Gibbs Sep 2015

Advent 3 • Isaiah 35:1–10 • December 15, 2013, Jeffrey Gibbs

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Isaiah 35 is fulfilled in Christ yet the power of evil, the desert’s hold of death, continues to exert its influence as Christians await the final and full manifestation of Yahweh’s glory, promised in the text.


Advent 1 • Isaiah 2:1–5 • December 1, 2013, Paul Philp Sep 2015

Advent 1 • Isaiah 2:1–5 • December 1, 2013, Paul Philp

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Isaiah is prophesying about that which is yet to come in the restoration of the church, begun in Christ’s first advent and yet to be concluded in his second advent.


Proper 27 • 2 Thessalonians 2:1–8, 13–17 • November 10, 2013, David Lewis Sep 2015

Proper 27 • 2 Thessalonians 2:1–8, 13–17 • November 10, 2013, David Lewis

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Paul’s purpose is to quell fears that the day of the Lord has already come, to confirm these believers in their call to faith, and to urge them to hold onto true teachings about the coming of Jesus.


The Lordship Of Christ And The Unity Of The Church, Jeffrey Kloha Sep 2015

The Lordship Of Christ And The Unity Of The Church, Jeffrey Kloha

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The people of God are united by the Spirit-given confession of Jesus as Lord (1 Cor 12:3), incorporated into the body of Christ in baptism (Gal 3:26), and gathered by the Spirit into that body for the common good (1 Cor 12).


Zechariah 9–14. International Exegetical Commentary On The Old Testament. By Paul L. Redditt, Reed Lessing Sep 2015

Zechariah 9–14. International Exegetical Commentary On The Old Testament. By Paul L. Redditt, Reed Lessing

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Redditt’s commentary is a welcome contribution, not only in Zechariah studies, but also for those who continue to research and write on the Book of the Twelve.


Reading Zechariah With Zechariah 1:1–6 As The Introduction To The Entire Book. Contributions To Biblical Exegesis And Theology, 59. By Heiko Wenzel, Reed Lessing Sep 2015

Reading Zechariah With Zechariah 1:1–6 As The Introduction To The Entire Book. Contributions To Biblical Exegesis And Theology, 59. By Heiko Wenzel, Reed Lessing

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Those who preach and teach from this, the longest of the Minor Prophets, will find Wenzel’s study to be invaluable.


Proper 10 • Isaiah 55:10–13 • July 13, 2014, James Voelz Sep 2015

Proper 10 • Isaiah 55:10–13 • July 13, 2014, James Voelz

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From Promise to Triumph


Proper 7 • Jeremiah 20:7–13 • June 22, 2014, Victor Raj Sep 2015

Proper 7 • Jeremiah 20:7–13 • June 22, 2014, Victor Raj

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Our text follows the account of the prophet smashing a clay jar (19:1–12) symbolizing the way God will smash the nation of Israel for their apostasy: for their turning the land God gave them into “a place of foreign gods” and pagan sacrifice (19:4).


Easter 7 • Acts 1:12–26 • June 1, 2014, Paul Raabe Sep 2015

Easter 7 • Acts 1:12–26 • June 1, 2014, Paul Raabe

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God has one covenant people of God, including his OT people built on the twelve sons of Israel/Jacob and his NT people built on the twelve apostles, with the Messiah Jesus as the chief cornerstone for the entire people of God.


Easter 4 • Acts 2:42–47 • May 11, 2014, Bruce Schuchard Sep 2015

Easter 4 • Acts 2:42–47 • May 11, 2014, Bruce Schuchard

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All who believed quite naturally and quite regularly shared all things in common, as would, as should, the superabundantly blessed persons of a singular household and family.


“Daddy, Will Animals Be In Heaven?” The Future New Earth, Paul Raabe Sep 2015

“Daddy, Will Animals Be In Heaven?” The Future New Earth, Paul Raabe

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A New Heaven and a New Earth or a recreated Heaven and Earth as God had always intended.


Christ Is Risen, Indeed Good News For Him, And For Us, Jeffrey Gibbs Sep 2015

Christ Is Risen, Indeed Good News For Him, And For Us, Jeffrey Gibbs

Concordia Journal

God brought the eschatological future into the present. He overturned death, permanently, in the case of Jesus.


Easter 3 • Acts 2:14a, 36–41 • May 4, 2014, Jeffrey Oschwald Sep 2015

Easter 3 • Acts 2:14a, 36–41 • May 4, 2014, Jeffrey Oschwald

Concordia Journal

This proclamation of the crucified and risen Lord and Christ encompasses all in its call to repentance but addresses each individual personally in its offer of salvation.


Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Andrew Bartelt Sep 2015

Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Andrew Bartelt

Concordia Journal

The resurrection is coming: that is the goal, and it brings hope to a hopeless people, not just death but resurrection.


Transfiguration Sunday • Exodus 24:8–18 • March 2, 2014, Jeffery Gibbs Sep 2015

Transfiguration Sunday • Exodus 24:8–18 • March 2, 2014, Jeffery Gibbs

Concordia Journal

If OT Israel needed a mediator, the one named and appointed to approach the presence of God on behalf of the people, how much greater is our mediator, the Son of God.


Epiphany 7 • Leviticus 19:1–2, 9–18 • February 23, 2014, Timothy Saleska Sep 2015

Epiphany 7 • Leviticus 19:1–2, 9–18 • February 23, 2014, Timothy Saleska

Concordia Journal

What are our lives to look like and how can they best reflect Christ? It is from this perspective that Leviticus 1–2, 9–18 have something to teach us.


Mark 1:1–8:26 Concordia Commentary By James Voelz, Jack Kingsbury Sep 2015

Mark 1:1–8:26 Concordia Commentary By James Voelz, Jack Kingsbury

Concordia Journal

Isagogically, Voelz emphasizes that because a literary approach to the Gospel of Mark takes seriously the story of the narrative as a whole, interpreters ought not feel constrained, as has been and is still the case, to use the text as a “window” to discover matters of history


Epiphany 4 • 1 Corinthians 8:1–13 • February 1, 2015, Bruce Schuchard Sep 2015

Epiphany 4 • 1 Corinthians 8:1–13 • February 1, 2015, Bruce Schuchard

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Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ”


Epiphany 2 • 1 Corinthians 6:12–20 • January 18, 2015, Timothy Saleska Sep 2015

Epiphany 2 • 1 Corinthians 6:12–20 • January 18, 2015, Timothy Saleska

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Paul argues against the idea that our physical bodies are of little value and so the way Christians use their bodies is “morally irrelevant.”


Baptism Of Our Lord • Romans 6:1–11 • January 11, 2015, Jeffrey Oschwald Sep 2015

Baptism Of Our Lord • Romans 6:1–11 • January 11, 2015, Jeffrey Oschwald

Concordia Journal

The whole world finds itself in need of even more serious considering, evaluating, and repenting in light of the epiphany of our Lord Jesus Christ.