Immanuel Lutheran Blog

Who is the one true Church?

Martin Luther 490 years ago changed the world as we know it with his posting of the 95 theses. Luther called for the church to reform to the true teachings of Jesus Christ. He pointed us to look to Scripture alone, through faith alone, given by grace alone.
Today, I encourage all of us to look at our beliefs and lives and evaluate them based on Scripture alone, through faith alone, given by grace alone.
The reformation changed the church...and may it today, reform us to what God intends us to be.

Did Jesus really say that? Have faith like a mustard seed

Have you ever seen a mustard seed?  Some day go into the grocery store and look in the spice aisle for mustard seed...pick one up and look at it.  They are tiny.  Jesus tells us that faith as tiny as a mustard seed will be able to throw a mulberry bush into the sea (Luke 17).  What!  What! What! 

Jesus says that with faith we can do the unthinkable.  We can forgive when we think we can't, we can love when we know there is no love left, we can share when we don't want to speak!  We can do these things because our faith is not in ourselves, but in the one who did the unthinkable for us.

Jesus Christ went to the cross and died for you and for me.  That is unthinkable, that He would die for us when we shouted to Him to die!  Jesus loves us in spite of ourselves and our rebellion to Him.  Jesus does the unthinkable and is capable of using you to do the unthinkable for other...all it takes is faith the size of a mustard seed. 

God can do anything, put your faith in Him, and see what He blossoms from you!