June 16, 2025

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Jesus’ Faith And Love Are In Me (Proverbs 15:1; 2 Tim 1:13)

Mount Carmel had its annual choral music festival this past weekend. You heard Rikka and Gorden and Sonja talk about this on Sunday’s podcast. Today we have one music selection from their performance that expresses the need for each of us to have the power of Christ living in our imperfect bodies. The heart of the gospel is that Jesus chooses to live in imperfect people. And He uses our imperfection as an opportunity to reveal His gracious love so that people may know that when God comes to us, He makes our imperfections His own and gives us in exchange His perfect faith and perfect love so that He absorbs our harsh words and gives us soft answers in its place. Today, you can trade in your worn out mean spiritedness and receive from Jesus a kindness and generosity that He showed the whole world when He was being killed on the cross. You can also download the article on how Luther discovered that God does want us to do good works especially in the marriage bed. That’s only possible when we have discarded our harsh words and received the soft words from Jesus.

Daily Texts for 06/16/2025
Old Testament Verse

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1

New Testament Verse

Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:13

Prayer

Loving God, thank you for those who have taught me to put my hope in Christ. I regret my rushing around. It can make me sound harsh instead of offering careful teaching or patient answers. Lead me with Christ's own faith and love. Help me live the grace of your softest word for all, Jesus himself. Amen.

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