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First Sunday in Lent 40 Days of Community: We’re Commissioned to Reach Out Together February 10, 2008 GOSPEL Matthew 4:1-11   Jesus experiences anew the temptations that Israel faced in the wilderness. As the Son of God, he endures the testing of the evil one.   Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  ²He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.  ³The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”  ⁴But he answered, “It is written,             ‘One does not live by bread alone,             but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”   ⁵Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,  ⁶saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written,             ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’             and ‘On their hands they will bear you up,             so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’”   ⁷Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”              ⁸Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor;  ⁹and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”  ¹⁰Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,             ‘Worship the Lord your God,             and serve only him.’”   ¹¹Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.

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Reformation Sunday October 28, 2007   READING FOR THE DAY Romans 3:19-28   Paul’s words stand at the heart of the preaching of Martin Luther and the other Reformation leaders. No human beings make themselves right with God through works of the law. We are brought into a right relationship with God through the divine activity centered in Christ’s death. This act is a gift of grace that liberates us from sin and empowers our faith in Jesus Christ.   ¹⁹Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.  ²⁰For “no human being will be justified in his sight” by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.              ²¹But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets,  ²²the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,  ²³since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;  ²⁴they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,  ²⁵whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;  ²⁶it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus.              ²⁷Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No, but by the law of faith.  ²⁸For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.

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4/6/07 Good Friday - Pastor Steve Svoboda & Barbara Stoffel

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