Where Our Hope Rests
Scripture Text: Galatians 1:1-5 & 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Galatians 1:1-5 & 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 • Today's Scripture Jigsaw
Sometimes we are so fixed on faith that we forget what our faith is fixed upon. Our faith has as its focus Christ and his death and resurrection from the dead. Our faith is not in the Church but in whom the Church believes. Our faith is not in doctrines but in the One upon whom those doctrines stand. Our faith is not in the Apostles’ teaching but to whom their teachings point us. Everything about this faith of ours rests initially and finally upon the physical life of the Son of God and his death and resurrection from the dead. From him alone springs the hope of Paul and Luther—and you and me. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him” (Lamentations 3:23). We have an enemy who accuses us, but he can not condemn us because Christ is our righteousness, our hope, our victory. In Christ alone is our confident hope.
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Rev. Mark E. Ryman serves as Pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC. Previously, Pastor Ryman has served other congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing.
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