There is a certain winking sarcasm and skepticism rampant in the land. It seems that no matter what anyone says these days, someone will answer with either, "Duh!" or "Yeah, right." And so we place everything on a sliding gray scale of doubt. Communists and we pretty much knew who was who.īut now we live in a world of hype and media manipulation, a world where terrorists lurk in the bushes and hate us for reasons we can't grasp. Back in the days of Ozzie and Harriet it was a yes-or-no world. Simply to say "Yes" or "No" doesn't fit our uncertain and cynical world. Far too many people today, especially younger people, are summed up by the twin phrases "Duh" and "Yeah, right." An article in the New York Times once claimed that there is something oddly appropriate that these two phrases have become so common among teenagers. How desperately people need the kind of certainty of comfort and hope that comes through Lord’s Day 1.
We see the brightness of gospel comfort not when we block from view the sadness of our terrorism-filled world but precisely when we weep with those who weep but even so find a word of lasting comfort for life and for death!Īnother Angle: What does the all-inclusive "body and soul" language here say about the nature of Christian hope, including for the "eternal life" promised and assured to us at the conclusion of Q&A 1? Illustration Idea Honest preachers of comfort and hope even today should not do less. When Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled," I picture him doing so with a quivering chin and with his cheeks wet with tears. Our familiarity with these words ought not blunt for us how startling many contemporary people would find the idea that there is actually comfort to be found in the idea that we are "not our own." To many people these days, not being in charge of your own destiny, not being able to make up your own rules as you go along, would sound like profoundly ugly, bad news!
#Nuclear throne together cwep free#
Three things: first, how great my sin and misery are second, how I am set free from all my sins and misery third, how I am to thank God for such deliverance.
Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. That I am not my own, but belong- body and soul, in life and in death to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.What is your only comfort in life and in death?.
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