Lutheran LensLines™

Luke 19:1-10, God meets sinners with a promise strong enough to carry shame away.

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 annoys your ego, it’s because the gospel won’t let you be your own savior.

1:1-4; 2:1-4 shatters self-salvation—your best efforts can’t pay what only Christ can forgive—today, not someday.

31:27-34 offers rest: you are loved before you are improved—today, not someday.

3:1-11 comforts the accused conscience: the verdict in Christ is mercy, not condemnation—today, not someday.

50:1-8, 22-23 shows that freedom is received by faith, not achieved by effort—today, not someday.

In Hebrews 11:29-12:2, God meets sinners with a promise strong enough to carry shame away.

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, God meets sinners with a promise strong enough to carry shame away.

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

13:1-8, 15-16 offers rest: you are loved before you are improved—today, not someday.

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

11:1-3, 8-16 comforts the accused conscience: the verdict in Christ is mercy, not condemnation.

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.

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

shows that freedom is received by faith, not achieved by effort—today, not someday.

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

Philemon 1-21, the gospel is announcement, not advice—Christ for you—today, not someday.

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

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

In Lamentations 1:1-6, the gospel is announcement, not advice—Christ for you—today, not someday.

In Psalm 42, God meets sinners with a promise strong enough to carry shame away.

137 comforts the accused conscience: the verdict in Christ is mercy, not condemnation—today, not someday.

In Jeremiah 2:4-13, God meets sinners with a promise strong enough to carry shame away.