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Devotional Readings from Luther’s Works for Every Day of the Year is unavailable, but you can change that!

These selections, taken primarily from Luther’s sermons and devotional writings, supply a devotional text for every day of the year, and include Luther’s comments. This book helps the reader better understand Luther, his Reformation, and the Holy Scriptures, and encourages an encounter with the risen Christ.

of its own exertions. The body, however, exercises its members as occasion requires. The eye has not attained its place because of its power of seeing—not because it has merited its office as an organ of sight for the body. In the very beginning it derived its very existence and its peculiar functions of sight from the body. It cannot therefore boast in the slightest degree that by its independent power of seeing it has deserved its place as an eye. It has the honor and right of its position solely
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