Ministry of the Church (149)
  1. What Jesus did and gives on these two Thursdays encapsulates his whole life and mission.
  2. Brothers, the rich and diverse education you have received has more than adequately prepared you for the ministry of temptation to which you have been called.
  3. But on the mountain in Galilee, where we encounter a very different side of God, doubts overtake us. Why?
  4. If you want to find God, he’s hiding in plain sight. Christ is in the very things that we would never select as a vessel befitting divinity.
  5. For many, there are days when they’re as excited about going to work on Sunday morning as you are about going to work on Monday morning.
  6. What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.
  7. I know now that to “forgive yourself” is not only impossible; it is foolish, dangerous, and futile. It is the vain attempt of a soul plagued by guilt to seek relief in the very last place he should be looking: in himself.
  8. The manna God provides is never tasty enough. God never lives up to your expectations. So silently or audibly you wish for an easier way.
  9. He has Israel right where he wants them: a body of water in front of them, their enemies behind them, and God above them, ready to save. Our Lord is always undoing us that he might redo us, killing us that he might enliven us.
  10. Behold the seemingly foolish ways of our wise God. He bids us embrace what appears impossible: that blood alone is our defense, that blood alone saves us from destruction, that the blood of a lamb is more than enough.
  11. We are like the spoiled children of kings who spit in the face of paupers on the street. We have been given so much, yet we treasure so little.
  12. Dan reminded me—in his words, in his patient suffering, through his unwavering faith in Christ, by his confidence in his baptism—that Jesus Christ does not abandon his own. No matter where they are, no matter what they’re going through, He is there.
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