150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ
John 8:31-32
Jesus said, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (ESV)
Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.
150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ
“To God, Our Savior, Be Glory….Both Now and Ever. Amen.”(Jude 25)This truth should certainly be worthy to be sung, preached, and spoken about constantly; and we certainly ought to love and praise God in recognition of such blessing as this…For what is it?The Son of God becomes my Servant and humbles Himself so deeply that He actually takes my misery and sin, nay, the sin and death of all the world, upon His shoulders, takes them away, and says to me: You are no longer a sinner.But I am.I step into your place.You did not sin.But I did.All the world is in sin.But you are not in sin.I am.All you sins are to lie on Me and not on you.No one can comprehend this.We shall be eternally blessed in yonder life by contemplating this love of God…Indeed, who is able to be sufficiently thankful to our Lord God for this Grace? – Martin Luther (Plass – What Luther Says – p.1427)
Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.
150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ
John 3:16–21 (ESV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.
150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ
Augsburg Confession Article III: The Son of God – 1 Our churches teach that the Word, that is, the Son of God [John 1:14], assumed the human nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 2 So there are two natures—the divine and the human—inseparably joined in one person. There is one Christ, true God and true man, who was born of the Virgin Mary, truly suffered, was crucified, died, and was buried. 3 He did this to reconcile the Father to us and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of mankind [John 1:29]. 4 He also descended into hell, and truly rose again on the third day. Afterward, He ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father. There He forever reigns and has dominion over all creatures. 5 He sanctifies those who believe in Him, by sending the Holy Spirit into their hearts to rule, comfort, and make them alive. He defends them against the devil and the power of sin.6 The same Christ will openly come again to judge the living and the dead, and so forth, according to the Apostles’ Creed. (Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions, ed. Paul Timothy McCain, 32 (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2005).)
Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.
150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ
John 1:29
Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (ESV)
Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.
150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ
“The Bible makes it clear that our predicament is not the situation we live in, but what lives in us.Our circumstances aren’t the problem; our sinful heart is the culprit.Jesus makes it clear that if we want to identify our real enemy, we’ll have to look in the mirror.” (Senkbeil, Dying to Live, CPH p. 73)
Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.
150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ
John 1:17
The law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (ESV)
Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.