The Supper doesn’t depend on the faithfulness of the Church. It depends on the faithfulness of Christ.
A rightly-oriented heart and a rightly-oriented love will consistently do what is best for God and best for our neighbor, which is why St. Augustine speaks of sin as a disordered love.
For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.

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This is the first direct promise of the Seed who will reunite all mankind to God by defeating Satan on the Cross.
Christian peace is not the absence of problems, but it is the presence of God amid our pain and sorrows.
The LORD God had promised He was coming, and they were certain there could be no better time for Him to fulfill His promise.
With a new year comes many new things. In the corporate world, we again introduced to our yearly performance review.
Proper preaching of good works is never for our encouragement.
Every age gives cause for both hopefulness and despair.
I woke up this morning feeling restless. It could be the 7,000 holiday calories I have eaten every day for the past two weeks or it could be that a new year has started and so follows the resolutions.