{"id":74,"date":"2020-05-05T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2020-05-21T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T18:05:45","slug":"devotions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/?page_id=74","title":{"rendered":"Devotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ascension of Our Lord Devotion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Receive the sign of the holy cross both upon your forehead and upon\u00a0your heart to mark you as one redeemed by Christ the crucified\u201d\u2026.\u00a0LSB Rite of Baptism page 268<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theology of the cross \u2013 The teaching of the Bible that says, \u201cGod accomplishes His greatest good in the midst of suffering and when human reason is contradicted.\u201d This teaching can only be received by faith and centers in the death of Christ for sinful man: \u201cWhen God makes alive he does it by killing, when he justifies he does it by making men guilty, when he exalts to heaven he does it by bringing down to hell\u201d Luther\u2019s Works, AE, Vol 33 pg 62<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may have noticed that there are crosses in every room within our office\/classroom space at
Lamb of God. There is a reason for having all those crosses \u201changing around\u201d. We confess the
truth proclaimed by John the Baptist that Jesus of Nazareth is \u201cthe Lamb of God who takes away
the sin of the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore we teach and confess that: God will only deal with us through the cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our salvation wholly depends on the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The cross and the
theology of the cross make many people very uncomfortable. In fact, many people (even some
Christians) actively substitute more palatable \u201ctheologies of glory\u201d. Doing so will always make
us more popular with people and acceptable within our culture, but it is not the way of salvation. 
Lent is a particularly good time to remember the \u201cbitter suffering and death\u201d of the cross.
I pray that all of you are committed to growing in grace through the preaching of the cross during
the Lenten season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the Cross of Christ I glory, towering o\u2019er the wrecks of time
all the light of sacred story, gathers round its head sublime<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the woes of life o\u2019er take me, hopes deceive and fears annoy
never shall the cross forsake me; lo, it glows with peace and joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the sun of bliss is beaming, light and love upon my way
from the cross the radiance streaming, adds more luster to the day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bane and blessings, pain and pleasure, by the cross are sanctified
peace is there that knows no measure, joys that through all time abide\u201d LSB 427<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ascension of Our Lord Devotion Receive the sign of the holy cross both upon your forehead and upon\u00a0your heart to mark you as one redeemed by Christ the crucified\u201d\u2026.\u00a0LSB Rite of Baptism page 268 The theology of the cross \u2013 The teaching of the Bible that says, \u201cGod accomplishes His greatest good in the midst of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lambofgodlcms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}