Faith Lutheran Church and School

Jesus has power even over death.

Jesus has power even over the storms. Our life is filled with storms but we can rest in Jesus.

The world is place of darkness which desperately needs the gospel. We are unworthy and insufficient to fulfill that need of preaching the gospel. Yet, Jesus calls us anyway. Through His promises and His power we are to do this great task. The fish are not caught by our wisdom or cunning but through Jesus’

Jesus comes to proclaim that we are released from sin. With Jesus the proclamation of the gospel always comes first. Those who will not accept Him as a savior from sin have no part in Him. Jesus told Peter unless He washes his feet, peter has no part with Him. We often like to hear

In His first miracle at Cana in Galilee, Jesus showed that He is God. Through God’s Word and physical means—water, bread, and wine—God shows us that Jesus is our Savior.

God’s wrath came upon the people of Israel because of their sin, but His mercy came through a bronze serpent on a cross. So also God’s wrath comes upon this world because of our sins, but His mercy and forgiveness comes through Jesus who hung on a cross for our sins

In the tabernacle God dwelt with His people. In Jesus God dwells with us. Many of the aspects of both the tabernacle and our churches are a reminder of our sin, God’s holiness, and the rest that God gives us in Jesus

The Law kills, but the Gospel revives. “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). Law/Gospel The Ten Commandments define God’s Law. Jesus, through His incarnation and by His suffering and death for my sins, defines God’s love and mercy toward me.

As God saved the Hebrews through the water of the Red Sea. He saves us through the washing of water in Holy Baptism, conquering Satan, our greatest enemy.

The Passover was a look back on the great salvation which God accomplished for Israel to bring them up out of the land of Egypt. It was also a looking forward to the coming of the Messiah. Christ is our Passover Lamb, whose blood was shed for our forgiveness, life, and salvation.