Luther for the Busy Man
by Martin Luther
Luther for the Busy Man is a new project brought to you by the Free Lutheran Bible College and Seminary, in cooperation with Ambassador Publications, the publishing arm of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations. Listen to daily meditations by Martin Luther himself, following the church calendar and read to you by Dave Ryerson.
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Week of Trinity XXIII - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXIII - WEDNESDAY LESSON: 1 CORINTHIANS 3:18‒23 Jesus did not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men and needed no one to bear witness of man; for He Himself knew what was in man. John 2:24‒25 Whenever we are assailed by the enemies of our faith, we always have the...
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Week of Trinity XXIII - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXIII - TUESDAY LESSON: 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7‒10 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way; through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments,...
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Week of Trinity XXIII - Monday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXIII - MONDAY LESSON: PSALM 118:1‒9 If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also give us all things with Him? Romans 8:31‒32 All who set themselves against the divine wisdom and Word of God must bring...
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Week of Trinity XXIII - Sunday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXIII - SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 22:15‒22 When they heard it, they marveled; and they left Him and went away. Matthew 22:22 This is written for our consolation, so that those of us who believe in Christ should know that we Christians are in possession of a wisdom that outranks…
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Week of Trinity XXII - Saturday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXII - SATURDAY LESSON: PSALM 119:57‒64 God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8 When we believe that we have a gracious God and that we…
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Week of Trinity XXII - Friday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXII - FRIDAY LESSON: PSALM 119:33‒40 With the Lord on my side, I do not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is on my side to help me; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Psalm 118:6‒8 Because...
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Week of Trinity XXII - Thursday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXII - THURSDAY LESSON: ROMANS 4:9‒12 If it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. Romans 11:6 In his mercy, the lord in the parable of Matthew 18:23‒35 pities the wretched situation of the servant before him. He sets…
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Week of Trinity XXII - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXII - WEDNESDAY LESSON: HEBREWS 9:11‒14 “Out of pity for him, the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.” Matthew 18:27 The lord has pity on this servant in his wretched condition. The servant is securely caught and entangled in his sins and foolish…
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Week of Trinity XXII - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXII - TUESDAY LESSON: 1 JOHN 2:1‒6 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the reckoning, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents; and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be…
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Week of Trinity XXII - Monday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXII - MONDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 18:18‒22 “Out of pity for him, the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.” Matthew 18:27 “Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me; and should not you...
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Week of Trinity XXII - Sunday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXII - SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 18:23‒35 Rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Romans 13:3 The Gospel, or the kingdom of God, is nothing else but the estate or regime in which there is nothing but the forgiveness of sins. Where there is a regime in which sins are...
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Week of Trinity XXI - Saturday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXI - SATURDAY LESSON: PSALM 103:13‒22 We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy...
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Week of Trinity XXI - Friday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXI - FRIDAY LESSON: COLOSSIANS 1:9‒14 The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. . . . He himself believed and all his household. John 4:50, 53 We must always keep ourselves in trim so that we do not just remain at the one fixed level but continually...
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Week of Trinity XXI - Thursday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXI - THURSDAY LESSON: LUKE 11:5‒13 “Go; your son will live.” John 4:50 In the matter of faith, one must let everything go and cling to the Word alone. When we have gripped that, let the world, death, sin, hell, and every misfortune storm and rage. But if you let go of the…
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Week of Trinity XXI - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXI - WEDNESDAY LESSON: ROMANS 10:14‒17 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. John 4:50 If Jesus had told this man previously that his son was living, he could not have believed it. But now he does...
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Week of Trinity XXI - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXI - TUESDAY LESSON: JOHN 20:26‒29 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” John 4:48 We have mentioned the outstanding faith of this royal official and pointed out that Jesus was pleased with his faith. How does this agree with...
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Week of Trinity XXI - Monday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXI - MONDAY LESSON: ROMANS 4:13‒25 At Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. John 4:46‒47 Scripture teaches that there...
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Week of Trinity XXI - Sunday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XXI - SUNDAY LESSON: JOHN 4:47‒54 One Lord, one faith, one baptism. Ephesians 4:5 You are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 This Gospel sets before us an example of faith. St. John reminds us in no less than three places that this official believed in Jesus. We can…
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Week of Trinity XX - Saturday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XX - SATURDAY LESSON: ACTS 5:1‒11 “Everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.” Matthew 22:4 “Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment? Matthew 22:12 In order to provide guests for the marriage feast, the king’s servants must never cease to continue with...
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Week of Trinity XX - Friday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XX - FRIDAY LESSON: 1 CORINTHIANS 2:6‒13 This is a great mystery, and I take it to mean Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:32 It is always our own old Adam, the corrupted nature of man, which prevents our heart from fully recognizing the joy and consolation which should be…
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Week of Trinity XX - Thursday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XX - THURSDAY LESSON: PHILIPPIANS 4:4‒7 “Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.” John 16:22 We must learn to accept and to believe the Word. Christ Himself proclaims this Word to us, and God has commanded us to believe it as the truth. To reject this...
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Week of Trinity XX - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XX - WEDNESDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 19:1‒6 Husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, because we are members of His body. Ephesians…
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Week of Trinity XX - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XX - TUESDAY LESSON: 1 TIMOTHY 4:1‒15 He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord. Proverbs 18:22 Wherever the estate of marriage lives up to its name and you have what may be called a proper marriage with man and wife getting on well with each…
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Week of Trinity XX - Monday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XX - MONDAY LESSON: ISAIAH 61:10‒11 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast.” Matthew 22:2‒3 The Lord Jesus Christ portrays the kingdom of heaven for us…
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Week of Trinity XX - Sunday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XX - SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 22:1‒14 The kingdom of God does not mean food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17 Christ forms the Christianity which He has brought into being in such a way that He calls it, and all that has reference to...
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Week of Trinity XIX - Saturday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIX - SATURDAY LESSON: PSALM 32:1‒5 “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He then said to the paralytic—“Rise,...
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Week of Trinity XIX - Friday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIX - FRIDAY LESSON: PSALM 130 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” John 20:22‒23 The Pharisees knew quite well that it...
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Week of Trinity XIX - Thursday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIX - THURSDAY LESSON: MARK 9:38‒41 “Whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.” Matthew 10:42 We must spread the Word very diligently and energetically among our fellowmen. I...
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Week of Trinity XIX - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIX - WEDNESDAY LESSON: PSALM 103:1‒13 “I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.” Isaiah 43:25 The forgiveness of sins is a very short phrase, but it comprises the whole kingdom of Christ. Men always have sins, but they...
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Week of Trinity XIX - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIX - TUESDAY LESSON: LUKE 12:32‒34 To them [His saints] God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 The kingdom of Christ is of such a kind that we waive all our...
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Week of Trinity XIX - Monday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIX - MONDAY LESSON: COLOSSIANS 2:13‒19 It is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6 If the kingdom of Christ is to be extended, you must…
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Week of Trinity XIX - Sunday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XIX - SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 9:1‒8 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take heart, My son; your sins are forgiven.” Matthew 9:2 These words in a brief summary tell us what the kingdom of Christ really is. It is the kingdom in which our hearts are touched by…
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Week of Trinity XVIII - Saturday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVIII - SATURDAY LESSON: ROMANS 5:18‒21 Now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit. Romans 7:6 Where true, genuine love of God flows from a man’s heart, there is also...
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Week of Trinity XVIII - Thursday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVIII - THURSDAY LESSON: ROMANS 7:7‒11 I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Romans 7:22‒23 Be quite sure of this, that reason can...
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Week of Trinity XVIII - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVIII - WEDNESDAY LESSON: GALATIANS 2:15‒16 It is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. Romans 2:13 How many are there who really understand the commandment, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your…
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Week of Trinity XVIII - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVIII - TUESDAY LESSON: PSALM 40:1-8 “Blessed are those who keep his (the Lord's) testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart.” Psalm 119:2 Man's unbelief has invented and set up countless substitutes for the two main commandments of the Law, resulting in forms of...
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Week of Trinity XVIII - Monday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVIII - MONDAY LESSON: 1 SAMUEL 16:1-7 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments...
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Week of Trinity XVIII - Sunday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVIII - SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 22:34-46 “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Psalm 119:18 Today's Gospel supplies answers to two questions. The first is the one which the lawyer puts to Jesus on behalf of the Pharisees, "Teacher, which is the great...
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Week of Trinity XVII - Saturday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVII - SATURDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 20:20‒28 “The tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone...
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Week of Trinity XVII - Friday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVII - FRIDAY LESSON: PSALM 138:1‒6 “When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, “Give place to this man,” and then you will...
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Week of Trinity XVII - Thursday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVII - THURSDAY LESSON: 1 PETER 4:7‒10 “Which of you, having an ass or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?” Luke 14:5 He means to say here, “You fools! Are you not quite mad and foolish? You do this for an ox or an ass, worth...
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Week of Trinity XVII - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVII - WEDNESDAY LESSON: 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1‒13 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7 We should slant all our laws in such a way that they always bring out the necessity of love. When they are of service and useful…
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Week of Trinity XVII - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVII - TUESDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 15:1‒9 Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” Luke 14:3 The lawyers and Pharisees, of course, did not believe that it was lawful to heal or to do anything else on the Sabbath day. In this...
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Week of Trinity XVII - Monday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVII - MONDAY LESSON: PSALM 34:1‒10 “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High; and call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” Psalm 50:14‒15 Before we can come to faith, the Gospel must be proclaimed…
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Week of Trinity XVII - Sunday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVII - SUNDAY LESSON: LUKE 14:1‒11 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of Mine that bears no fruit, He takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit He prunes that it may bear more fruit. You are already made clean by the word which I have...
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Week of Trinity XVI - Saturday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVI - SATURDAY LESSON: ROMANS 8:28-30 For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In overflowing wrath, for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer. Isaiah 54:7-8...
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Week of Trinity XVI - Friday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVI - FRIDAY LESSON: 2 TIMOTHY 1:8-10 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?” The sting...
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Week of Trinity XVI - Thursday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVI - THURSDAY LESSON: PSALM 119:121-128 “I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.” John 14:18 The common lesson taught in all the Gospels is that we should learn from them what kind of God we have. In this week’s Gospel (Luke 7:11-17), the point that is made quite...
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Week of Trinity XVI - Wednesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVI - WEDNESDAY LESSON: 2 CORINTHIANS 9:10-15 O how abundant is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee, and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men! Psalm 31:19 In what happened to the widow at Nain, God lets us see…
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Week of Trinity XVI - Tuesday
THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVI - TUESDAY LESSON: PSALM 86:8-15 If many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many. Romans 5:15 At times God suffers a man to experience fear and distress, pain and…
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