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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God’s creatures on four legs are some of the greatest storytellers of the Scriptures.
What is it about the cross and its embrace of shame that informs and inspires Christians, who, for various reasons, might find themselves inscribed by shame, to no longer be shameful?
Jesus took the poison of sin and drank the cup of wrath on our behalf to gain favor and righteousness for us.
God can never really be said to be ignoring us, even if our experience with God at any given moment is that he is.
This is an excerpt from the introduction of Hitchhiking with Prophets: A Ride Through the Salvation Story of the Old Testament written by Chad Bird (1517 Publishing, 2024). Now available for preorder.
It is your privilege—we may even say “right”—to call upon this Father and to call him Father.
Eucatastrophe is the coming untrue of all sin, evil, and death. And where that starts is the empty tomb of the risen Jesus.
An Anglo-Saxon poem gives fresh insight to the cross
Every Christian should understand what it means to have a Great High Priest
How Leviticus 17 is a key passage for understanding atonement
The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
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.