Christ For You

Bible Study | 1 Corinthians 10 (part 1)

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Why Is This Happening To Me? | 1 Corinthians 4:7 | Ash Wednesday 2026

Why Is This Happening To Me? | Christ For You Text: Genesis 3:19; 1 Corinthians 4:7 | Ash Wednesday When life hurts, do you put God on trial? When life goes well, do you take the credit? Have you prayed, “God, why is this happening to me?” like an accusation? Like you deserve better? Like God owes you answers? Ash Wednesday cuts you off. What do the ashes say about you? What do they silence? What do they expose? Are you dust? Mortal? A sinner? Then what is left to do but repent? Scripture presses harder: “What do you have that you did not receive?” Did you give yourself breath? Keep your heart beating? Hold your life together for one second? If you want “credit,” will you take it for what is truly yours: sin and the death it brought? And if suffering is not always tied to one specific sin, do you still see its root in the fall and the curse? Then the Gospel: Jesus takes what you earned, guilt, shame, curse, death, and bears it on the cross. Why was He forsaken? For you. What do you get instead? Forgiveness. Peace with God. Life. So where will you take your “why” now? Will you go looking for explanations, or will you go to Christ who gives Himself to sinners? Subscribe & Share: Spotify: Christ For You Português: Cristo Para Você Website: ZionWG.org Looking for a Lutheran Church near you? Support the preaching of God’s Word

How Do You Know Your Faith Is Real? | Luke 18:31-34 | Quinquagesima

How Do You Know Your Faith Is Real? | Christ For You Text: Luke 18:31–43 | Quinquagesima Most people say they believe. They know the words. They know the stories. They know the Lutheran slogans. But what if you can be close to Jesus and still miss Him, like the disciples did? What is true, saving faith? What makes faith faith? And how do you know you actually have it? Jesus answers on the road to Jerusalem. He tells the Twelve, with terrifying clarity, that He will suffer, be killed, and rise again, and they cannot “put it together.” They expect glory, not a cross. But a blind beggar sees what they don’t. He hears the promise, confesses Jesus as the Son of David, and cries out for mercy. That is saving faith: the heart’s confidence in God’s mercy for Christ’s sake, clinging to the crucified and risen Savior “for you.” And the comfort is stronger than the doubt: Jesus still stops. He still hears the cry for mercy. He still gives what He promises through His Word, forgiveness, and His gifts. If you want to know whether your faith is real, don’t stare inward. Look to Christ where He has promised to be for you. Subscribe & Share: Spotify: Christ For You Português: Cristo Para Você Website: ZionWG.org Looking for a Lutheran Church near you? Support the preaching of God's Word

Can We Lose Our Salvation? | Luke 8:4–15 | Sexagesima & The Baptism of Gloria Kerstein

Can We Lose Our Salvation? | Christ For You Text: Luke 8:4–15 | The Parable of the Sower (Sexagesima & The Baptism of Gloria Kerstein) Can a baptized Christian fall away?If faith can be lost, how does it happen?If Christ saves by His Word, what keeps you from drifting?And when you feel yourself slipping, where do you go? Jesus answers with the Parable of the Sower. The seed is the Word of God, and the soils are hearers. Some lose the Word because the devil snatches it. Some believe for a while, then testing scorches what never sank deep. Some slowly suffocate as life, comfort, and a crowded calendar choke the Word out without a fight. The warning is real: salvation isn’t something you keep in your pocket while you live as if Christ doesn’t matter. But the comfort is stronger: the Sower does not stop sowing. Christ keeps His people by giving what He promises, again and again, through preaching, forgiveness, and His gifts. This sermon was preached at the Baptism of Gloria Eve Kerstein, where God put His Name on her and gave her salvation. And the Church’s task is simple: keep bringing her, and you, back to the Word that saves and sustains. Subscribe & Share:Spotify: Christ For You [https://open.spotify.com/show/0q7o8mzLFcEBBVnrYBKYWx?si=63919bfc5a9c4f6d]Português: Cristo Para Você [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cristo-para-voc%C3%AA/id1859625373]Website: ZionWG.org [https://www.zionwg.org/visitors] Looking for a Lutheran Church near you? [https://www.lutheranliturgy.org/] Support the preaching of God's Word [https://secure.myvanco.com/L-ZCN9/home]

Why Isn’t God Fair? | Matthew 20:1-16 | Septuagesima

Why Isn’t God Fair? | Christ For You Text: Matthew 20:1–16 | The Workers in the Vineyard (Septuagesima) “Why isn’t God fair?” It’s one of the most common complaints people make about Christianity — and sometimes the quiet question Christians carry when life hurts. Jesus answers it with a story about workers in a vineyard, a grumbling crew, and a master who refuses to run His kingdom like a payroll office. The early workers want wages. The master gives gifts. And that difference changes everything. This sermon exposes the dangerous assumption that God owes us for our faithfulness, our suffering, or our years in the Church. That’s Law. But then comes the Gospel: God does not deal with you on the basis of fairness, but mercy. Your standing with Him was settled not by your hours in the vineyard, but by Christ’s work on the cross. The “unfairness” of God is the very thing that saves you. Here is the comfort: when you compare your life to others and wonder why theirs seems easier, Jesus points you away from the scoreboard and back to His generosity. At the end of the day, the wage is the same — forgiveness, resurrection, eternal life — not because you earned it, but because Christ did. What unbelief calls unfair, faith calls grace. Subscribe & Share: Apple Podcasts: Christ For You Spotify: Christ For You Português: Cristo Para Você Website: ZionWG.org