I thank you for the way You broke down these two verses about the Love of God. Your explanation brought clarity for me on how I can imitate God. You give simple clarification that is profound and very meaningful. I thank God for the inspiration you were given to share. Have a blessed night.
@AscensionEastLansing6 күн бұрын
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad I was able to provide that insight for you - sometimes I'm not sure if what I'm saying is necessarily hitting the mark that I hope it does! I am very grateful for your encouragement!
@marykroos44619 күн бұрын
❤😊
@mattmeyerhuber962410 күн бұрын
Sermon starts at 41:52
@AscensionEastLansing10 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@marykroos446115 күн бұрын
Heb.13:8. ❤❤❤
@marykroos446124 күн бұрын
Never thought of this...
@marykroos446127 күн бұрын
Love it!!😂❤
@marykroos446129 күн бұрын
Wow! YES!!!
@AscensionEastLansing29 күн бұрын
Shots fired 🙂
@sobergb29 күн бұрын
A Joyful noise, indeed.
@ElizabethRonghangpiАй бұрын
Praise to Almighty Father.. i received a precious God's word please prayer in support for our native land surrounding around my neighborhood neighborhood aunt has been diabetes problems n for my maternal uncles also diabetes through prayer it will be healing for my further studies n for my brother Daniel w'll be an obedient boy we are also keep praying continuously in every services during fasting n prayer services also there's a many teaching staff are non Christian in my Institute they disliking me because i'm a Christian helps us to keep strong faith in You what's your plans helps us to know from Mikir Hills, Northeast/India ❤🙌🌻🌻 🇮🇳
@barbaraidleman8511Ай бұрын
Dear Jesus I repent my sins,I pray and walk with the holy spirit. Please grant me peace and take away the pain in my shoulder. I love and thank you. In Jesus name I pray 🙏
@marykroos4461Ай бұрын
😊
@christinejones3314Ай бұрын
Thank you thank you. This was very inspirational. I like the way you talk I like your beard. Thank you for sharing the good news of Jesus and trials and suffering for a purpose. He has a plan for my life and all good things come from God thank you for this message. God bless you.
@AscensionEastLansingАй бұрын
Aww - thank you for your kind words (and not just about my beard)! 🙂 I pray that God continues to bless you beyond measure - even through the daily trials of this life!
@marylouisanthony25572 ай бұрын
Thank you brother for the lovely message through this video every thing is exactly true fears of everything around us. The Bible verse are so helpful will be reading it to encourage my soul n keep my self close to Jesus.🙏🏼U. Prayers n good wishes frm India.
@AscensionEastLansingАй бұрын
You are very welcome! I'm glad this is helpful!
@marykroos44612 ай бұрын
Another Lutheran Adjustment! Thanks!😊
@AscensionEastLansing2 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@marykroos44612 ай бұрын
😮
@marykroos44612 ай бұрын
Needed this today!😂
@marykroos44613 ай бұрын
Thank you for the timely reminder!
@AscensionEastLansing3 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@marykroos44613 ай бұрын
Love this passage!!!
@AscensionEastLansing3 ай бұрын
One of my favorites
@marykroos44614 ай бұрын
Lutheran!
@marykroos44614 ай бұрын
Much needed!!!😊
@marykroos44614 ай бұрын
Thank you😊
@AscensionEastLansing4 ай бұрын
You're welcome 🙂
@jennyyule-gf8oi4 ай бұрын
Reminded me of my dad telling me we should lean towards the Word surgically working on people and not like a machete 😂….
@AscensionEastLansing4 ай бұрын
Amen to that! 💯
@marykroos44614 ай бұрын
"What Jesus says goes" ❤😊
@marykroos44615 ай бұрын
Tentatio, meditatio, oratio?
@AscensionEastLansing5 ай бұрын
Pretty much 🙂
@joeldulebohn30855 ай бұрын
There is a time when you can not walk together. I was confirm in the ELCA church I remember this. History method is not good, they really screw up church and that was there goal. You have my permission to use this in your class, and you say it was from me. I would like to be able to tell your class my perpective of this as a 13 year old at the time.
@AscensionEastLansing5 ай бұрын
Very true. I think I was able to correct myself during that class session that I wasn't trying to suggest that we could have continued to walk together in that controversy - but that I was trying to emphasize that even still, things might have been handled better 🙂 So much hurt came from that - I mean, there would have been hurt regardless, but I think in some ways we made it worse than it should have been. Would love to hear you story sometime!
@joeldulebohn30855 ай бұрын
There is a great book written after the civil war call "Christ in the Camp" by J. William Jones. It descripes how all churchs help each other to save men souls before they die in battle. The church work together to get it done. The book was written with a southern perpective, but I"m sure the same was happening in the north. I'm about 2/3 way through the book.
@AscensionEastLansing5 ай бұрын
Sounds interesting! I'll have to add that to my list of books to check out. I honestly haven't been exposed to much on the topic of the church during the Civil War - I can't imagine how challenging the ministry was during that time.
@marykroos44615 ай бұрын
❤
@marykroos44615 ай бұрын
Very encouraging❤
@marykroos44615 ай бұрын
Enjoy your time in New Orleans!
@AscensionEastLansing5 ай бұрын
Thank you - we are! New Orleans is great and so is the conference!
@maryannmcneal33496 ай бұрын
Wow that was pretty spot-on for me this morning
@joeldulebohn30856 ай бұрын
Is there a way you can post the reading?
@AscensionEastLansing6 ай бұрын
Sure thing! The two readings we looked at were: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 biblia.com/bible/esv/2-corinthians/12/1-10 Mark 6:1-13 biblia.com/bible/esv/mark/6/1-13
@marykroos44616 ай бұрын
So Jesus gently shows her the Faith that brings us to Jesus and keeps us is God's work, not ours.
@AscensionEastLansing6 ай бұрын
Absolutely 🙂 He corrects all of our attempts to claim the work for ourselves, but does so in such loving and gracious ways. We should all strive to be so loving when we teach the same 🙂
@marykroos44616 ай бұрын
Amen!!
@marykroos44617 ай бұрын
Thank you!!!
@Sortleader767 ай бұрын
Brother, you lost me when you assumed The KJV Holy Bible may be incorrect with its translation. The KJV Holy Bible reads little children by the way, and it was little children.
@AscensionEastLansing7 ай бұрын
The words translated as "small children" in Hebrew are the plural form of "na'ar qatan." Na'ar is used for Moses as a baby in Exodus 2:6 - and it is used for Absalom in 2 Samuel 14:21 - where the KJV even renders that as "young man." There are quite a lot of places throughout the Old Testament where "na'ar" refers to young men - and usually in conjunction with their roles as servants. The other word "qatan" can mean small or little or young or even lesser or unimportant. I'm not suggesting that the KJV maliciously completely mistranslated that text into something different (as if the Hebrew said "old men" and the KJV rendered it "young children") - but I do think that the KJV took two words that could have a variety of different meanings and went with a weaker (and in my opinion) incorrect option. No translation is perfect. I have problems with the way the ESV (which we use) translates some things. Translators are humans - and they make errors - they have biases that will lead them to take certain things in certain ways. The KJV is no exception. For reference, this is the word we're dealing with: biblehub.com/hebrew/5288.htm
@marykroos44617 ай бұрын
Thank you for this reminder!!!
@annapernica81807 ай бұрын
Thank you Lord Jesus for all blessings to us 🙏 🙌 ❤️ thank you Lord Jesus ✝️ 🙏 🙌
@marykroos44617 ай бұрын
So Lutheran!!!😂
@marykroos44617 ай бұрын
Needed to hear this. Thanks!
@marykroos44618 ай бұрын
The symbolic camp's "wisdom" is less than an annoying hangnail on God's little finger.
@AscensionEastLansing8 ай бұрын
Gotta love the way he phrases things
@marykroos44618 ай бұрын
If I were to say external things have no spiritual benefit, would that be gnosticism?
@AscensionEastLansing8 ай бұрын
I think so - or at the very least you'd be getting close to it. The main thing with Gnosticism is that the material/physical is evil.
@marykroos44618 ай бұрын
Therefore denying Christ came in the flesh.
@AscensionEastLansing8 ай бұрын
@@marykroos4461 Yes - Gnostics would most definitely deny that. In their framework - there's NO way God would take on flesh and no way that true salvation could be found through that flesh
@marykroos44618 ай бұрын
GRRRRRR....
@marykroos44618 ай бұрын
Big wholistic overall awareness that ALL comes from Our Father? Even what we don't like?
@AscensionEastLansing8 ай бұрын
Yep! You never know who might benefit from seeing us endure sufferings faithfully 🙂
@marykroos44618 ай бұрын
Hard Stuff, but I know you're right
@marykroos44618 ай бұрын
Thank you; Luther's teaching clarifies and encourages us in what prayer is. So many cultural misunderstandings in churches.
@AscensionEastLansing8 ай бұрын
An excellent question was raised regarding this commandment: what if you find out that somebody is abusing a child? Are you to not say anything to anybody? In this scenario - I would say that going to the authorities to protect the child would not necessarily be a breaking of the 8th commandment. To break it would be to start spreading the information to your neighbor. Your first priority is the safety and well being of the child. And even if we regarded ANY telling of the sin as a breaking of the 8th commandment - I would say that we would have the higher priority to keep the 5th and 6th commandments (protecting the child from physical/sexual harm) which could cause us to break the 8th. A similar hypothetical is if you want to go to church and your parent forbids you from going. If you go, you break the 4th - if you don't, you break the 1st and 3rd. Unfortunately, according to our sinful condition, there will be times when there is no "perfect" solution - we may have to break one commandment to uphold another in order to prevent the greater harm. If the situation was an adult who was being abused by their spouse or their family - we would want to encourage that person to seek help immediately - to assist them in any way we could to get them help. If we simply took that information and started telling everybody else about it, we would definitely be breaking the 8th commandment. If we took that information and did NOTHING with it, we would be breaking the 5th/6th. This is a good example of where we have a more "academic" discussion of what the commandment means - but the application gets messy. In these scenarios what I want people focused on is: "how can I protect/love/defend this person" rather than "how do I keep the commandment in this situation?" Notice the emphasis: "how do I protect/love/defend" is focused on the neighbor - "how do I keep the commandment" is focused on me. I would say the more God-pleasing option is the path that focuses on the neighbor. Ultimately when it comes down to it, our behavior should be guided by the goal of "love thy neighbor."
@marykroos44619 ай бұрын
👍Lord, help us all.
@marykroos44619 ай бұрын
YES!!!!!!!
@marykroos44619 ай бұрын
Never had a Pastor go through and teach this--thank you!!
@pamelahalbig83609 ай бұрын
Love the idea of going through the small catechism. Thanks