Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cost of Discipleship - Part 1\n John 15:26-27\n 06\/02\/2025\n\n\n 26 But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you\n from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds\n from the Father, he will bear witness about me.\n 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have\n been with me from the beginning. (ESV)\n\n Forty days after Easter, Christ Jesus ascended into heaven\n as witnessed by His disciples. Does the truth that Jesus no\n longer physically walks upon the earth mean that He is not\n present? We believe, teach, and confess that our Lord Jesus\n Christ remains with His Church through Word and sacrament. We\n also believe, teach, and confess that as Jesus sits at the right\n hand of the Father, this is not someplace far removed from each\n Christian. If the Father is present everywhere, which is one of\n God's attributes, then the Son is equally present.\n\n But Jesus also promised the disciples that they would also\n receive the gift of the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father\n and the Son. Jesus said:\n But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from\n the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the\n Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also\n will bear witness, because you have been with me from\n the beginning.\n\n\n As we will see in the coming weeks, it is the work of the\n Holy Spirit to call, gather, and enlighten the Church, and each\n individual Christian, with the truth of God's rich grace, love,\n and mercy. Through the witness of the proclaimed Word, through\n the visible Word of the sacraments, the Holy Spirit brings us to\n faith in Christ Jesus. We are declared holy in God's sight as we\n trust that our salvation from sin and death is because of God's\n love alone, for the sake of Jesus Christ alone.\n\n This week we will look at the promise Jesus gave to His\n disciples to send the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, and the cost of\n Christian faith in this sinful world.\n\n May our Lord grant you the peace of knowing His grace and\n mercy for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 2, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}