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Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Trinity Divine Service starts at 8:45 Sunday mornings. Come join us to receive the forgiveness Jesus won for us.

05/14/2026

Is mom still looking for that one China plate that was broken at the family Thanksgiving dinner? Try Trinity Lutheran's Rummage sale tomorrow and Saturday, May 15 and 16th. We will not sell our communion ware, as pictured, but there are a lot of choices in the basement. Come and look for that missing plate you haven't been able to find anywhere else.

05/12/2026

Having trouble finding that perfect gift for someone? Need a new wardrobe? Why not try Trinity's rummage sale is this Friday and Saturday, May 15th and 16th from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. Trinity is located in Brewster, MN, 1025 4th Ave. We'd love to see you and help you find what you're looking for.

11/28/2025

1st Sunday in Lent Luke 4:1-13 March 9, 2025
The first Sunday in Lent is always the story of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness by the devil as told by the Gospel we are examining for the year. This year we are traveling through Luke so we have Luke’s account of this. As far as we know, Luke never encountered Jesus in person. He travelled with Paul quite a bit, but Luke never had the road to Damascus experience Paul did. Luke explains why he wrote this gospel in the first four verses of chapter one. In order to give Theophilus an accurate account of Jesus’ life, Luke went around and researched what people said about Jesus. While traveling with Paul he interviewed Mary, the mother of our Lord, and heard the stories of Christmas that only Luke’s gospel has. He talked with the other apostles, the ones who had been with Jesus from around His baptism, to hear what had happened to Jesus early in His ministry. Once hearing Mary’s story of Christmas day, Luke may have gone to Bethlehem to talk to shepherds to find the ones who had been in the field that night.
This morning we have Luke’s research on the temptation in the wilderness. Jesus, full of the Spirit, which goes without saying since the Spirit proceeds from Jesus and the Father and is given from them to us, is driven into the wilderness to face our temptations. He is there 40 days and nights, the same time rain fell upon the earth in Noah’s time. As God had started anew with Noah, removing sin through the flood waters, removing the evil people God regretted creating, Jesus goes into the wilderness to remove sin, but this time for good. Forty is also the number of years the people of Israel spent in the wilderness due to their unbelief and lack of trust in God to take the Promised Land when Moses had led them there. All in all, when forty is mentioned in the Scriptures, it doesn’t bode well for mankind in general. For God’s people it works out okay, but for those who reject God’s promises and how He wants them to live, not so much.
For those forty days, Jesus didn’t eat anything and when they came to an end, Satan tempted Jesus with physical desires. Satan also tried to get Jesus to give in to this temptation with the phrase, “If you really are the Son of God then…”. This was then a twofold temptation. First, Jesus was very hungry after not eating for forty days. Second, this would prove to Satan that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus shows us, though, that it is never good to listen to Satan, even with the best of intentions. He tells Satan that it is written, “Man does not live by bread alone.” We know Jesus fed over 5000 people later in this gospel so He could have fed not only Himself, but everyone in the entire nation of Israel. But it is never good to listen to Satan. Feeding the poor and hungry is a good thing, but if it comes with Satan’s request, it only ends with sorrow.
Next Satan tempts Jesus with power. He shows Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and promises that if He would merely worship Satan, all their authority would be given to Jesus. Imagine the good Jesus could have done with the authority of the nations at His command. Yet Jesus shows us that if it comes from the whisper of Satan, it is never good. Just look at our own politics. This DOGE is finding tax payer’s money being spent on ridiculous things that have nothing to do with the tax payers. And we can think it is one side or the other’s manipulations, but all this happened over decades, not merely four years. Both sides listened to how they could do such good things for people, but ended up throwing great amounts of money at many things that didn’t help the people they were supposed to help. When the whispers of Satan tempt you to help someone through multiple steps and for the best of intentions, each step will have a negative effect on the people who are supposed to be helped.
Finally, Satan tempts Jesus’ trust in God. He takes Jesus up to the highest point of the temple, where God’s word is located, and tells Jesus to jump off because God had promised to send His angels to protect His people. Satan actually uses God’s word to tempt Jesus to test God. This temptation has worked before. Adam and Eve were tempted with God’s word, misquoted, but still given. But Jesus gets to the heart of the sin and tells Satan that we are not supposed to test God. We are to trust God’s word, not test it to prove it is true. And look at all those who ridicule God’s word saying that you can’t trust it because so many humans wrote it, or that it is just a book, or that there are so many errors in it, or whatever whispered temptation of Satan comes to enable mankind to refuse to listen to God’s word. As with the other two temptations, if it comes from Satan, it can’t be trusted. We may have the best of reasons for an action, but if it is trying to bring doubt to what God says it is never good.
Over those forty days, Jesus withstood each and ever temptation from Satan. He did what Adam and Eve couldn’t do, nor Noah and his family, nor any person in all of history. He withstood the temptations of the evil one. And because He is doing all of this in our place, by faith, it is as if we did them as well. His perfect rejection of every one of Satan’s ploys covers us in the waters of Baptism. His denying Satan’s call to feed His hunger is more than conquered with His very body and blood, which is food and drink indeed, given and shed for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus refusal to take the power of the nations unto Himself is refuted by the power of His spoken word, which has gone out to conquer nations of sinners with the forgiveness of sins. All the temptations of Satan conquered on the cross by the sinless Lamb of God. And while they still come at us, by faith, we look to the one who did conquer them, in these forty days of temptations, and on the cross where our sins were destroyed. Amen.

11/28/2025

Thanksgiving Day Luke 17:11-19 November 27, 2025
Who do we give thanks to for the good in our lives? That seems an obvious answer, doesn't it? Especially when we look at all the good we have absolutely no control over. The sinful self will take credit for our hard work that feeds our family, but what about the healing when we feel sick? Or the storms that water the earth to nourish our crops? Or the sunshine that crops use to sprout and mature? Or the fellow members of your church who see your pain walking and try to help by closing the communion gate so you don't have to walk up to do it? Sure, they may keep doing it when you're better, but they are your friends and family who care about you and jump in to help when they see a need. When we look at all the good things that happen in our lives, we have a lot to be thankful for.
The ten l***rs in our story were in terrible straits. Leprosy is a highly contagious disease and only within the last 100 years or so has a treatment come that works on it. In Jesus' time, there were no treatments. The l***rs had to go to l***r colonies where those with leprosy could live in a community but it was cut off from the city and avoided by just about everyone. Even the l***rs themselves would want their loved ones to avoid them so they wouldn't catch it. Our text says they stood at a distance from Jesus and cried out to Him for help. They didn't want to risk giving it to anyone else. So they cried to Jesus asking for mercy. We recently had a collect that said God chiefly makes His presence known by showing mercy. And Jesus does show them mercy. He tells them to go show themselves to the priest. The priest in God's directions given to Moses in the Exodus had the responsibility to see whether the leprosy was gone or not. In that section of Leviticus, I believe, there are descriptions of leprosy so the priest can go through them and give the thumbs up to their healing or the thumbs down. As these l***rs did as they were told, they were healed.
Think of all the times in our lives when we did what we were told and were healed. Some have been cancer free for over 26 years following the directions of their doctors. Some have come back from really bad sicknesses, even to the surprise of their doctors. Insulin was used in the late 1800's. Before that, diabetics didn't last very long. The story goes that when the doctors tried it out in a ward full of unconscious children, by the time they got to the last one the first ones were waking up. Now diabetics live long lives thanks to the developments with insulin pumps and glucose meters. Doctors don't have all the answers but God has revealed some to them so that humans can live less problematic lives. All these developments He is showing mercy behind the scenes.
One of the l***rs noticed he was healed and instead of going to the priest, turned around and praised God for what had happened to him. He was a hated Samaritan. He returned praising God and falling at Jesus' feet. This man shows us to whom we are to give thanks, God. He fell at God's feet, praising Him and giving thanks loudly for the wondrous miracle given to him. The other nine just did what they were told. They didn't turn around and give Jesus thanks. But this foreigner did just that, giving us a fine example.
Now we must compare ourselves to these l***rs. Which group do we follow their example, the nine who just kept on going, doing what they were told? Or the one who didn't do what he was told, turned around, loudly praised God falling at Jesus' feet? Do we think that it is just science and medicine doing what it is supposed to do and go on our merry way? Do we marvel at the wondrous way God made human bodies to overcome diseases and sicknesses on their own? Do we praise Jesus for the many things that are ordinary everyday things but needed for us to survive? Or do we not give it a thought and just keep on keeping on?
Today we will follow the example of the Samaritan for our prayer. We will sing hymn 36 praising God for all His wondrous care, both earthly things and heavenly things. And as we go on today giving thanks for the many things we sometimes take for granted, remember how merciful God is in giving us what we need to survive in this world and for saving us through what Jesus did in this world 2000 years ago. Amen.

11/28/2025

Sunday of the Fulfillment Luke 23:27-43 November 23, 2025
Today is the Sunday of the Fulfillment. This is the Sunday we remember that all the promises of God are fulfilled in what Jesus did on the cross. God promised Adam and Eve in Genesis 2 that if they ate the fruit He told them not to eat, they would die. God promised in Genesis 3 that one of Eve's children would crush the serpent's head even as the serpent bit his heel. God promised Abraham that one of his descendants would be a blessing to the world. God promised David that one of his descendants would sit on his throne forever. God promised the people in many of the prophets that He would save them from their sin and evil ways. All of these promises were fulfilled when Jesus died on the cross, as we all know.
As they were taking Jesus to the place of the skull, the place where crucifixions took place where all entering Jerusalem could see the punishment for doing evil, women were mourning and weeping along the way. He told them not to weep for Him, but for themselves because something so bad was about to happen to Jerusalem that people of that time and place would say that it was better if women didn't get pregnant or had infants nursing. People would ask the mountains to fall on them and the hills to cover them. He was talking about the destruction of Jerusalem about 37 years later. The Roman armies came in and laid siege to Jerusalem, preventing food from entering the city. The people got so hungry they began to feed off the weakest of each other, even the infants and children in the city. The longer the city withstood the Romans, the hungrier they became. The reports from historians of the time were truly horrible about what the people did to survive, only to have the walls fall and the Romans kill everyone.
This shows us that even as God is fulfilling His promises of taking His anger away from us because He placed it on Jesus and took the eternal punishments away from us, there still are horrible things that can still happen in our earthly pilgrimage. All of God's anger was taken away in Jesus' death, but to take away the consequences of sin in our lives, the sinful nature has to be daily destroyed, drowned in the waters of baptism, destroyed with the words of the Gospel, killed by the body and blood that was killed on the cross. So long as sin is alive and well in the world, bad things will happen. Armies will fight. Tornadoes will destroy. Blizzards will kill. Towers will fall. Houses will burn. All the bad things that happen in our lives are from the world being sickened by sin.
As Jesus hung on the cross, people mocked Him. They said, “If you really are the Christ, the chosen one of God, come down from the cross. Then we'll believe in you.” When criminals were crucified, they would have lots of physical energy to scream and yell at those who caught them and made this happen. The only words Jesus screamed, and He didn't really scream them, were, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” The seven last words of Christ on the cross were words of forgiveness and Psalms but never words asking God to meet out revenge on the people who killed Him. It was very strange.
So strange that one of the thieves who were crucified with Him, one on His right, one on His left, was changed as well. At first they both mocked Him. But then as one told Jesus to save Himself and them as well, the other rebuked that thief. He said that they're getting what they deserved. They had done the deed and were paying the price. But, he said, Jesus hadn't done anything to deserve this. Then he looked at Jesus and begged Jesus to remember him in Jesus' kingdom. And as Peter told the crowd on Pentecost Day, quoting Joel 2, “All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Jesus looked at the thief and said, “Today you will be with me in paradise.”
Once the sinful nature dies in the pangs of death, paradise is opened to those who look to Jesus for salvation. The evil things we face and the evil things we do are erased and heaven is opened to us. All the promises of God are fulfilled for us and none of the effects of sin will affect us any more. Paradise will be filled with liars, cheats, those filled with anger, murderers, thieves, adulterers, and all kinds of sinners who have been washed clean in the blood of the Lamb, the blood that comes to wash us clean in the wine given to Christ on the cross. Go in peace, washed clean in the word and sacraments, to remember, especially on this day, the fulfillment of all of God's promises to us in the cross of Christ. Amen.

11/28/2025

23rd Sunday after Pentecost Luke 21:5-28 November 16, 2025
The temple was a big part of Jewish life in Jesus' time. All the sacrifices came to the temple, whether animal sacrifices for sin or harvest sacrifices or first fruits, and so forth. If you came to the temple for whatever reason, there was a cleansing ritual with two pools, one for cleansing and one for rinsing, then after this process was finished the person received a wooden marker of some kind to show they had gone through the ritual. This was the place God had promised to be for them, so they took special measures to appear before Him clean. Jesus frequently spoke against the Pharisees' dressing up for show, looking good while living ungodly, but He never spoke against dressing up to appear before God in your best to honor God and as a sign of respect towards God. And it makes sense, doesn't it? Since God is there we should show respect as best we can. We don't have to buy an expensive, fancy suit or dress, but we should show up in clean clothes, looking nice, to show that we truly believe we are in the presence of the Judge of mankind, each according to his or her means. The widow who gave her last mites probably didn't dress as nicely as those who gave out of their abundance, but I'm sure she did the best she could to honor the one she gave all she had to.
This kind of thinking was behind the disciples pointing out the beautiful stones the temple was made out of. “Look how beautiful the stones are and how they add to the temple's elegance. Surely God would be pleased to live in this building. King Herod started refurbishing our temple and he made sure it looked fantastic.” Jesus, though, remembered how the same king killed all the children two-years-old and under in Bethlehem to try to kill Him thirty some years ago. The beauty of the building can be destroyed by the ugliness of the builder. Jesus warns them that true horror is coming to them and in just a few decades. Armies will surround Jerusalem, cut off their food so much in the siege that they begin eating each other before the Antiochus Ephiphanes breaks through the walls of Jerusalem in 70 AD and doesn't leave one stone upon another to teach the Jews a lesson on rebellion. The palaces are destroyed, the houses are destroyed, the walls are destroyed and the temple was destroyed. And to make sure the Jews understood the lesson, God had a mosque built over the site so no new temple could be built there.
The reason for this is, as Jesus had said, a new temple was on the scene. Jesus is the new temple, the person who is also God. As God was present in the temple for His people, He is present in Jesus for His people. The old temple, built by Herod, was destroyed in 70 AD and it has never been rebuilt. The new temple was destroyed in 33 AD, but was rebuilt in the resurrection three days later. The building that could have lasted for a long time was replaced by the person who lives forever. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice so much so that no more animal sacrifices are needed. Jesus had said that if the temple were destroyed He would rebuild it in three days. The place where God had set Himself up died on the cross and was rebuilt three days later when He rose from the dead.
Jesus warned His believers that it wasn't going to be easy. They would be imprisoned, beaten, turned over to the authorities by their own families, even given over to death. The apostles all died horrible deaths. And Jesus' disciples are still dying horrible deaths. Churches are being burned down with the Christian community inside it in foreign lands. Christians are being shot while trying to have open dialogues with others in our own land. Now, think about that for a bit. Those early Christians knew life would be rough and dangerous. They knew that all they had to do to make it easier was deny Jesus and fake worship Caesar as god. Each and every one of them died, never denying Christ. Even John, who died of old age, didn't deny His Lord. He died in exile on the island of Patmos. This is one of the surest proofs of Jesus' resurrection. The eye witnesses to it all died never betraying their risen Lord, whom they had all seen face to face. The eleven, hiding in fear when Jesus appeared to them, faced death because they knew their Lord would bring them to their mansions. No eye-witness dies for a lie, especially not as they are tortured to get them to deny what they saw. They saw the wounds. They saw the torture Jesus went through. And they saw those same wounds healed as He told them to go into the world and forgive sins three days later. Amen.

11/28/2025

22nd Sunday after Pentecost Luke 20:27-40 November 9, 2025
The third commandment is, “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.” The Sabbath day for the Jewish people was and still is Saturday, the last day of the week, the day God rested from His work of creation. The apostles, who were Jews themselves, changed the day of resting and remembering God's word to Sunday to remember the resurrection. During Lent, when we remember why Jesus died and examine our lives for the sins He carried on the cross, we do not sing alleluias nor do we put flowers on the altar because of the horror Jesus faced to pay our penalty. In other words, in memory of His death. But when Easter comes, the alleluias and flowers return in celebration of His resurrection. He who was dead is alive now forever.
The Sadducees were a group of religious leaders in Israel of that time who did not believe in the resurrection. They had come up with many logical reasonings for this, like our question for today. A man had six brothers. He got married but had no children. By Moses' law, his next eldest brother was supposed to take his wife and have children with her to carry on his brother's name. All six of his brothers took her as their wife, but died without having children. Finally, she died. So whose wife would she be in the resurrection? There are a lot of ways of looking at this problem. God said a husband and wife should be faithful to each other so who would be her husband in the resurrection since she had all of them for a husband? The only logical explanation is there can be no resurrection because God won't cause people to sin, to have more than one husband or wife.
Jesus takes this apart with one part of the wedding vow, “Til death do us part.” Husband and wife are bound by their vows until one of them dies. In the resurrection, death is no more, no one will die, so no one will be married as they worship God in full. The desire to marry and have children will be gone with death being gone. Death is what fuels mankind's desire to reproduce since the children will carry on the family name after the parents die. That desire that God knew would cause a lot of trouble, so much so that He gave us a commandment about it, will be taken away in our new glorified bodies.
Now that Jesus handled the question about marriage, He changes to proof of the resurrection. He goes all the way back to the burning bush, where God gave His name to Moses. In Exodus 3, God tells Moses, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” This is a lesson on how language works. In every language, when speaking of those dead, the past tense is used. “I was the God of Abraham” is how it should be spoken if Abraham were still dead. But he isn't, so God said, “I am the God of Abraham.” And in the Hebrew language, the tense of the verb “am” is now and continuing into the future. As in, “I am and always will be the God of Abraham.” Since God is not bound by time, He is our God throughout all time, past, present, and future. He is the God of Abraham. He is the God of David. He is the God of Helen. He is the God of Ruth. He is the God of Mary. He is the God of all.
While how language works may not matter for us many times down here, it matters a great deal for the one who creates with words. When God said, “Let there be light” light was created. And not just for that day, but for all days of mankind. When God said, “Let the birds fill the sky and the fish fill the seas” it wasn't just for that one day of creation, but for all time. When God made a covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15, it wasn't just for that day, but for all of Abraham's life and the lives of all His descendants. When God says, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased” over Jesus in His baptism, it is for all who believe in Him as well. When Jesus takes the bread and says, “This is my body” it is His body throughout all time. His body is the body that paid the penalty for our sins even before we were born because He is our Savior. He is our Savior when we were first baptized, continues to be our Savior when He speaks to us through His word, and continues to be our Savior when He tells us His body and blood are in the Sacrament for the forgiveness of sins. Amen.

11/28/2025

All Saints Sunday Matthew 5:1-12 November 2, 2025
Throughout the church year we have specific days for specific saints, like Peter, Paul, Jude, Titus, and so forth. There are even days for saints who had not seen or heard Jesus but were faithful leaders of the church through history. When I first started here, when those days fell on a Sunday, we would have the readings for those saint's days instead of the normal set of readings for the week. When the new hymnal came out in 2007, that practice was stopped and now we get the readings for the week and not for the saint.
Yet throughout the years of the church calendar, it was felt that some of the saints were not included simply because the heavenly host is beyond counting by the human mind. We can't know them all. So a day was included for all the saints throughout all time. Eventually one church had the idea to say the names of those they lost over the last year and ring the church bell to commemorate their loss to us and this caught on and all the churches began doing this. Before loud engines in tractors and vehicles, bells would be heard throughout the area telling those who may have been still harvesting that the names were being read. I'd like to think those Christians paused while the bells rang out of respect but I'm not sure if this happened or not.
The gospel reading for All Saints Day is Matthew 5, the Beatitudes. Jesus saw the crowds and went up on the local mountain to give them room to hear and so His voice would carry better. Red Rocks Amphitheater in the mountains of Colorado is such a place. While they now bring in speakers to make the concerts louder, you can hear a whisper spoken on the stage at the top of the 1000 step theater if everyone's quiet in the group. Jesus found a place like this and sat down to teach. His disciples came to Him to learn. You can imagine Jesus speaking with His twelve in a half circle in front of Him, then more behind them going down the mountain.
Then Jesus began teaching them how Christians are supposed to live. Blessed are the poor in spirit, the ones who don't think they can do it on their own. The ones who think they cannot obey God's commandments well enough to get into heaven and know they need God's promised Messiah, or Christ, to save them. The rich in spirit, who think they're better than others, are not blessed. Christians don't compare themselves to others, especially not their strengths to other people's weaknesses. Jesus wants Christians to think everyone else is better than they are.
Blessed are those who mourn. Mourning is usually a death matter, losing a loved one, but it can also be one's business, divorce, estranged children, or other types of great losses. People are to mourn when something horrible happens, especially death. The comfort Christians have is they will be comforted. It is a promise from Jesus, God Himself. No matter how bad life becomes down here, heaven will be the place of comfort, comfort by God who made us and knows what will truly comfort us better than we do.
Blessed are the meek. This is closely related to poor in spirit and shows Jesus was making a psalm or poem. Hebrew poetry says one thing in one line then uses a synonym in further in the poem. God doesn't want proud, self-righteous Christians. These are known as hypocrites who think they are better than others.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. This is related to poor in spirit and meekness as well. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness know they do not have this righteousness on their own. But they want the righteousness that comes from above. As David said throughout the Psalms, the man is blessed who sins are covered.
Blessed are the merciful; those who forgive and forget to the best of their abilities. God is merciful and He wants His children to be merciful.
This is just about half of the Beatitudes but you can see from this that Jesus is describing how we are to live in this world. We are not to be pompous braggarts who think they are better than everyone else but humble servants who help as the need arises. This is what Jesus did for us. He humbled Himself to become one of us, then fixed our lives by living the perfect life for us. Finally He took all our sins and was punished as if He committed them. From all this, we know we will get all the good things those who are blessed will receive one Jesus brings them into heaven. The tears will stop flowing. Love and joy will increase. The comforting from sorrow will never stop. Amen.

11/28/2025

Reformation Sunday John 8:31-36 October 26, 2025
Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Sola Scriptura; only grace, only faith, only scriptures. These were the three main points in the Reformation. We are saved only by grace, the free gift of God. We cannot pay for this grace. We cannot die to earn this grace. We cannot barter for this grace. There's not enough money in the world to exchange for Christ's sacrifice for us. We are not automatically put into heaven because we die here. And even if we could create the most amazing art piece, or machine, or game, it does not compare to the creation God did in the beginning. In Luther's time the church had found a way to make money, a lot of money. They started selling indulgences, which were pieces of paper people could buy to shorten their time in purgatory. The pope thought of salvation as a bank transaction. You get into heaven if you have done enough good in the world. The saints did more than enough good works to enter heaven, so their good works could be used to help others get into heaven. Their good works were stored in the church somehow and could be dealt out as the pope saw fit. Indulgences are still given out to this day. A few months ago the new pope gave out indulgences for youth work of some kind.
While Scripture does speak about Christ paying the penalty for our sin, it is not done in a banking model. Scripture teaches a courtroom model, where the fine we are given for breaking the law is paid by Jesus on the cross. The gracious gift we are given is being declared innocent, or justified, because of what Jesus did for us.
This gift is given to us by grace as a gift through faith. Faith is believing in something. Many today are told to believe in themselves or have faith in their community. Scripture tells us that even faith is a gift from God. It is not our work of believing that saves us but God's work of changing our hearts to be able to believe. If we start believing our faith saves us as if we don't have to go to church to keep receiving faith, we have turned faith into our work, nullifying it. We can't boast that we have such a great faith as if we could produce this faith. All we can do is thank God for giving us this great faith and building it through the means He gives to do so. Yes, it is our faith. Yes, we should hold on to it as firmly as we can. But it is a gift, given to us by God through His word and sacraments so that we can have life. Every gift we get, whether a birthday gift, or a graduation gift, is given to us. We didn't earn the money given. We didn't make the toy given. Someone else did and it is given to us as our own. Faith is similar. We don't make it. But once it is given it is ours.
Faith is given to us through the Scriptures. To believe something you have to hear about it. In order to believe Jesus died carrying our sin, we have to hear it. So Jesus gave us His word, the Bible. It is the most amazing book in history. It is a collection of books and letters written over the course of 1500 years by 40 or 50 writers. It tells us about one person, Jesus, the promised savior of the world. No other book has ever been written like this.
It is proven by archaeological evidence over and over. The Bible says this happened here and archaeologists go there and find the city named and evidence for the event described. The Bible tells us this person lived at this time and archaeologists find evidence of that exact person in that exact time. We do not have a blind faith. Our faith is given to us based on events that really happened to real people in history.
It is also a prophetic book. Over the course of a thousand years or so God described to the prophets what would happen to His Son, Jesus. Over 300 prophecies about one man and Jesus fulfilled them all. The odds of that happening are astronomical. These three reasons point to our teaching that the Bible is the word of God. It is a gracious gift given to us by God Himself. It is true, historically and archaeologically. It is what gives us our faith by showing us how Jesus opened heaven for us. Amen.

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