Addiction is the warped fruit of a good tree: a sign that the heart longs for transcendence but has sought it in places too small, too finite to hold such hunger.
Jesus, the true Bridegroom, erases that mistake by his own compassionate, saving act. Isn’t this also a picture of the gospel?
Wisdom lurks in the outer places. Rich gratitude sprouts from the impoverished and forgotten.

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If there is no resurrection, then we have no true hope, and the arts above all vocations would be the folly of follies.
The Law must attack because nothing outside of Christ can enter Heaven—nothing!
Neither did Christ’s absolution “run out” nor “reach a limit” due to Judas’ sin.
To lose a leader like this is always too soon!
The folly of sinful man attempting to bridge such an infinite gap to God Who is holy becomes obvious.
God’s justification of us does not happen secretly in our spirits. God justifies you and me in His absolving Word
One of the biggest challenges to the Christian faith is sorting through our question of “Where is God in the trials of our lives?”
The devil is effective with this attack because it calls out all the things a Christian sinner experiences as simultaneous sinner and saint.
In our time Christ has not left us bereft of unbroken signs of His promised return.
We find such a temptation when the devil causes us to question God’s election or predestination of us in “eternity as a past event” (i.e. “eternity-past”).
When we explain away God’s Word, we jettison the reality of our ominous diagnosis in the “Thou shall/shall nots” of the law, and with it the sweet cure in the, “This is My body/blood” of the Gospel.
Jesus takes that burden away in the “I forgive you and them” and gives us His “light” burden.