More than a friend, Amsdorf was also an important figure in the work of religious reform, providing counsel to Luther on key occasions, shepherding the churches, and defending the faith until his death.
Just as it is necessary that Christ took on flesh for our salvation, so too, it is necessary that he should be in the supper bodily
Jesus doesn’t say, “I give you the way,” but “I am the way.”

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This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.
St John of the Cross' feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.
On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.
To a world enslaved to time (because it has no future), the Church's disregard for clocks and calendars is ridiculous.
In a year where things are unclear, tensions are heartbreaking, and uncertainty is rampant, what can we be thankful for?
Because everything we possess, and everything in heaven and on earth besides, is daily given, sustained, and protected by God, it inevitably follows that we are in duty bound to love, praise, and thank him without ceasing
Love continues to gently but endlessly pursue the narrator, despite his persistence in pulling away in the opposite direction.
The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.
God's justice is marked and measured by sacrificial love, not power as the world defines it.
Mindful that the pagans’ understanding of death is a finality, Paul says, “NO!” Death is not the end of humanity in God’s new world.
Christ crucified is at the heart of both our freedom from sin and death and our freedom to serve and love our neighbor.
After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.