150 Quotes to Celebrate 150 Years of God’s Unchanging Grace in Christ

“Every part of the historic liturgy is drawn directly from the Sacred Scriptures.This means that the liturgy is the Word of God in use; it is not something of our making; it is something we have received from God.What we sing and pray in the liturgy, down to every clause, is something God has given us.This is perhaps the most distinctive feature of traditional, liturgical worship: in keeping the catholic tradition of the church of all times, liturgical worship employs a manifestly Biblical tradition. Since every part of the liturgy can easily be traced to Scripture, we may go so far as to say that the liturgy is Scripture in action; and so, properly understood, it is right to call it the living Word of God.”
(Eckardt, The New Testament is His Blood, Gottesdienst 2010, 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

Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (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 Third Commandment
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

What does this mean?
We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word, but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it.

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

Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. (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

“If we want to be wise, we must become fools and let God’s Word be eternal truth.” Martin Luther
(Plass – What Luther Says – p.1455)

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

Psalm 103:1
 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. (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

            Augsburg Confession Article II: Original Sin
 ¹ Our churches teach that since the fall of Adam [Romans 5:12], all who are naturally born are born with sin [Psalm 51:5], that is, without the fear of God, without trust in God, and with the inclination to sin, called concupiscence. ² Concupiscence is a disease and original vice that is truly sin. It damns and brings eternal death on those who are not born anew through Baptism and the Holy Spirit [John 3:5].
³ Our churches condemn the Pelagians and others who deny that original depravity is sin, thus obscuring the glory of Christ’s merit and benefits. Pelagians argue that a person can be justified before God by his own strength and reason. (Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions, ed. Paul Timothy McCain, 31-32 (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2005).)

Service of Celebration on June 24, 2018 @ 2pm
Meal and Fellowship to follow.