Luther felt the reform of the church could not simply remain a matter of aesthetics and practice. Something much deeper needed to be rooted out.
While God can, and often does, appear to people face to face, he also often employs the use of several types of messengers.
The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.

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God’s gifts are received, and the faithful heart offers gratias, and thanks are given in return.
Divine election hacking happens with the proposal that God’s Word is irrelevant and powerless, weak and impotent.
True preaching arises when the Holy Spirit steeps the proclaimer in its own cycle of judgment and mercy.
Whatever loss you’ve undergone, whatever grief resides in the hollow of your heart, however much it seems like God has abandoned you, God sees that void as the place he wants to fill with new life and mercy.
The Confessions instead look forward and provide a critique of the world and of all my various religions and idolatries.