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During the Reformation, art was a means by which the Gospel was made known to many people who couldn’t read or didn’t have access to books. Today we remember two Reformation artists, Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Dürer, with a devotion from Inside the Reformation.

For today’s devotion we read about the Gospel in an excerpt from Finding the Lost: Cultural Keys to Luke 15.

Today the Church remembers when the angel Gabriel visited Mary to tell her about Christ’s incarnation.

Today we focus on the Old Testament Reading, Ezekiel 33:7–20. Our reading comes from Concordia Commentary: Ezekiel 21–48.

As we remember Joseph today and consider the role he played in the Holy Family, we think about our own families. Our devotion comes from Courageous Fathers of the Bible.

For today’s devotion, we focus on the Psalm of the Day from Psalm 4. Our devotion comes from Reading the Psalms with Luther.

Today’s Gospel is about Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness after He was baptized. We read about it with a devotion from the Arch Book Jesus and the Stranger.

Today we remember martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, who were killed in Rome in the third century. Our devotion is from Treasury of Daily Prayer.

In Year C of the three-year lectionary, the Gospel for Transfiguration is from the Book of Luke.

Jesus Christ is both true God and true man. He is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, as we confess in the words of the Nicene Creed. We refer to the “incarnation” of Jesus using a word that derives from two Latin words: in and carne, meaning, quite literally, “in fleshing.”