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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Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
Do our petitions move God?
Yes, Christmas brings joy, but no less danger
What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
Kyle G. Jones gives a broad primer on what apologetics is, what it hopes to accomplish, and its limitations.
God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).