Lutheran LensLines™

shatters self-salvation—your best efforts can’t pay what only Christ can forgive—today, not someday.

1:2-10 gives Law and Gospel: God exposes our need, then gives Christ as our righteousness.

comforts the accused conscience: the verdict in Christ is mercy, not condemnation.

5:1-7 calls our “goodness” what it is without Christ: insufficient—today, not someday.

If 1 Timothy 6:6-19 annoys your ego, it’s because the gospel won’t let you be your own savior.

shatters self-salvation—your best efforts can’t pay what only Christ can forgive.

calls our “goodness” what it is without Christ: insufficient—today, not someday.

71:1-6 comforts the accused conscience: the verdict in Christ is mercy, not condemnation—today, not someday.

gives Law and Gospel: God exposes our need, then gives Christ as our righteousness.

12:49-56 shows that freedom is received by faith, not achieved by effort—today, not someday.

offers rest: you are loved before you are improved—today, not someday.

offers rest: you are loved before you are improved—today, not someday.

As Law and Gospel, it exposes our need and comforts us with Christ’s gift.

In Acts 16:9-15, God meets sinners with a promise strong enough to carry shame away.

Luke 17:11-19 annoys your ego, it’s because the gospel won’t let you be your own savior.

1:1, 10-20 calls our “goodness” what it is without Christ: insufficient—today, not someday.

gives Law and Gospel: God exposes our need, then gives Christ as our righteousness.

calls our “goodness” what it is without Christ: insufficient—today, not someday.

shatters self-salvation—your best efforts can’t pay what only Christ can forgive—today, not someday.

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15, the gospel is announcement, not advice—Christ for you—today, not someday.

comforts the accused conscience: the verdict in Christ is mercy, not condemnation.

Jeremiah 18:1-11, the gospel is announcement, not advice—Christ for you—today, not someday.

gives Law and Gospel: God exposes our need, then gives Christ as our righteousness.

If Psalm 27 annoys your ego, it’s because the gospel won’t let you be your own savior.