August 24, 2025
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Luke 13:26 – “Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’”
Proximity to Jesus and the things of faith is not faith itself. Many Pharisees heard His Word but ignored it and refused to believe in it.
We want to be not only hearers, but also doers of Jesus' Word. We want not only proximity to Jesus, but true communion with Him. We want to hear Him, follow Him, praise Him and return thanks.
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Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Isaiah 66:18–23; Hebrews 12:4–24 (25–29); Luke 13:22–30
The Cross of Christ Is the Way into the Kingdom of God
With the cross of Christ, the time has come “to gather all nations and tongues” (Isaiah 66:18).
The sign of the cross is set forth in the preaching of the Gospel, the declaration of the Lord’s glory “among the nations” (Isaiah 66:19). Many “will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29), but only by the narrow way of the cross.
Those who refuse to follow Christ crucified will ultimately find only “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Luke 13:28), whereas Christ’s disciples, called from all the nations, will eat and drink with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God. They will come into “the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” (Hebrews 12:22).
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Life Thoughts for the Week
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost - “We stand together, one in mind and heart, and with one voice, in defense of the lives of our unborn children—God’s precious little ones.
Yet, what we stand for is not only the lives of these precious unborn children but also the moms, the dads, the grandmas and grandpas, the young and the old, the healthy and the sick and dying.
What we stand for is the very value—the very gift—of life itself.”
Pastor Paul Clark, LFL of Michigan – A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life • lutheransforlife.org
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