The reason Christians argue so much about the sacraments is because, deep down, they matter.
Treweek points us to the happy ending to come in eternity, when the entire church will be married to her Redeemer.
I realized I had long and drastically underestimated the depth and vitality of the Christian intellectual tradition.

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God is for us in His foolish, scarred Word and Wisdom. Nothing is against us, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
Some have built an entire theology on the false assumption that when God commands us to obey or believe, we have the ability to obey or believe.
Only Jesus’ absolute absolution can satisfy a troubled conscience.
“Church is set free in Christ, in short, to revel in her irrelevance to the ways of the world’s power and wisdom.
That is why the church has to offer Super Bread and Super Wine, so that God can see that we are Super Christians.
“The strongest person in the room doesn't win the fight," she said, "it’s whoever's the meanest…” I was fifteen years old when my aunt taught me that.
Jesus is our food and drink, our home and property, our all in all.
Jesus is our food and drink, our home and property, our all in all.
No matter how great our efforts or how righteous our intent, we will go from troubled to scared, and scared to terrified, unless we are sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb.
I’m a drug addict. Specifically, a recovering drug addict. More specific, a grateful recovering drug addict.
When we talk about love then, let us not talk about ourselves.
God goes to work on us through His Word like a woodcarver chisels a block of wood.