Elmer Hohle

8 March Those who belong to Christ, they crucify their flesh along with its lusts and desires. Galatians 5:24. Dear human being, if you wish to obtain the piety which avails before God, you must completely and totally give yourself over to Christ and accept Him for yourself, so that everything that was His is now […]

7 March You have come to the blood of sprinkling, which is better than that of Abel.  Hebrews 12:24  Thus the blood of Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate, without ceasing, cries out so that God the Father takes note of His beloved Son’s pleas and intercessions and is gracious to us poor, miserable sinners.

6 March Our life however is in heaven, from there we also await the Savior, Jesus Christ, the Lord. Philippian 3:20. Here on earth we are not citizens, as we steadfastly live and have a heavenly kingdom; our citizenship however is with Christ in heaven, i.e., in the yonder life for which we wait, and hope to

5 March My peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world gives. Let not your hearts not be troubled nor be afraid! John 14:27. You indeed seek and desire peace, but wrongly. For you seek it how the world gives it, not like Christ does. You should also know that God is wonderful amidst

4 March I am a Good Shepherd; a Good Shepherd gives up His life for the sheep. John 10:12. If you know this Shepherd, you can protect yourself against the devil and death and say I indeed have hardly kept God’s Commandments: but I crawl under the wings of this beloved ‘Hen’, my beloved Lord Christ,

3 March Why are you so afraid and why do such thoughts come into your hearts? Luke 24:38. No money or goods can pay for what a troubled heart can learn and conclude from this text: Although the devil brings up all the passages that are in the Bible to frighten one’s heart, when he overdoes it and thereupon does not

2 March Christ made the cleansing of our sins by Himself. Hebrews 1:3. Here he defines the Gospel right[correctly]; for everything that may be said about Christ helps us nothing until we hear how it is said to be altogether good and useful for us. What would be the need for it to be proclaimed to us, if it had

1 March Therefore Christ died for all, so that those who then live, should not live for themselves, but rather for Him Who died for them and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:15.  This lovely, sweet sermon will not help you, were you to say: Christ died for sinners and rose again, therefore I hope [*] also for me. Yeah,

28 February The kingdom of God does not consist of words, but of power. 1 Corinthians 4:20. It [the kingdom of God] should not remain in the words of [about] the resurrection and Christ therefore has nothing to do with it that one hear or speak about it, instead it should be perceived [to take place] in our [personal] lives. For

29 February  However if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us all our sins and to wash us clean from all unrighteousness. I John 1:9 That’s why the good news of the forgiveness of sins belongs only for true Christians, who properly confess and feel their sin. The other raw people, who do