Lord

I Believe in Jesus Christ, “Our Lord”

Are you ready for Holy Week?  We celebrate so many wonderful events that week – so many events that Christians cherish because through them, the promise of salvation became reality.  Every time we say the Apostle's Creed we recall the events of Holy Week as well as the other events in the life of our Savior. Those things that Jesus did to free us from Satan are the same events that made him our Lord.  Martin Luther explains what that word “Lord” means as we use it in the second article of the Apostles' Creed - “I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.” Luther writes in his Large Catechism:

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