There is no one — not now, not ever — who cannot be included in the family of God through the efficacy of Christ’s saving power.
What do we do with Katie Luther? What kind of historical character can we paint her to be?
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.

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Bonhoeffer was in the unenviable position of trying to break a spell. The spell was the Nazi crisis, where the totalitarian state threatened the church, and yet to many, seemed to be saving the culture and nation from mortal dangers.
Whoever your president is, you have a King. A King who elected you.
Physicality is good. Some way or another, choose a full performance of Messiah and give it your full attention. More than one time. Consider it a devotional practice.
We have seen a vision better than an angel. We have seen God on the cross. A God who is willing to suffer for us.
We discover in the book that all of history is unfolding according to a plan, but the plan is hidden from our typical ways of seeing.
He is holding you in the faith, even if you imagine your faith has failed you.
“We all partake of the one cup, the cup of blessing which we bless. This is not seen as a bunch of different cups, but as one cup, the same cup that Jesus blessed at the Last Supper.”
We practice infant baptism because that is the ancient practice, following the command of Scripture.
As I came to read the Reformers, I found their words comforting. I started to hope again.
Our Lord has told us not to make these fine distinctions in grades of sin.
God the Father Almighty is good. And He must be good in ways that surpass my earthly father.
People lamented that ancient paganism was dead, but the same people who profess that they would love an old pagan feast ignore Christmas, where the best of paganism has survived.