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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The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
Jesus is the anti-Cain: a giver, not a taker.
When we cry to the Lord in our trouble, he will send us a preacher with words that deliver us from destruction.
The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
The power of the Word of God is the power of God himself, for he is always faithful to his Word.
A group of unassuming apostles was given a graphic illustration of how the Lord would use them to turn the world right-side-up through the upside-down logic of grace.
Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
Don't lose hope. Don't avoid church on Sunday morning.
Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.