Sacraments (153)
  1. We aggrandize time. It certainly possesses power over us. It irreversibly moves us in one direction and can’t be replayed to different ends.
  2. Blessedness comes to us camouflaged as simple earthly words, water, bread and wine.
  3. Growing up, I dreaded the first Sunday of each quarter. Every time during the evening service, we would have Lord’s Supper after the sermon.
  4. In the face of all the misunderstandings on the part of the world and all the errors which have arisen within Christendom, let us make this point absolutely clear: the task of the church in the world consists uniquely and alone in the preaching of the Word of God and in administering the Sacrament.
  5. God's doing for us that gets done is Word and Sacrament stuff. Everything else flows from His speaking to us, baptizing us, bodying and bloodying us. Jesus sees our need.
  6. The Christian Church is one of the last refuges in modern American society where people who have perpetrated or suffered trauma and violence can gather together to receive the truth about themselves.
  7. If it's not Christ Jesus "for you" they're not delivering the Gospel to you.
  8. If we are saved by faith, if it is by faith that we have life in His name, what do the sacraments have to do with it? The answer is: everything.
  9. Even in our principled disagreements, we continue to pray for the unity of all, and invite the world to taste and see that the Lord is good.
  10. Put to death by God's Word of Law, we are then raised to new life by God's Word of Gospel.
  11. Jesus is many things. He’s an example. He’s a teacher. He’s a great thinker and philosopher. But He’s also so much more, and He’s one thing above all else: He is Jesus, Savior.
  12. Every Christian is abundantly rich through baptism.
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