While God can, and often does, appear to people face to face, he also often employs the use of several types of messengers.
The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.
Christianity does not locate freedom in radical autonomy. It does not tell either men or women that happiness consists in escaping obligations arising from relationships we did not entirely choose.

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We are saved by grace, and strictly speaking, not by an offer.
In order to shore up wavering faith commitments, both for the disciples and for us today, Jesus used His actions during a day’s worth of ministry to evidence the hard truth about His Messianic identity.
The first course is always humble pie because, at the table, there are just two seats: from humiliation to exaltation.
Exemplified here are two misunderstandings about the forgiveness and graciousness of God among some Christians.
The Gospel predominates when hearers receive the saving gifts of Christ as God’s final word to them.
So, on this Good Friday, our sinful self and all our sins rest with Jesus here in His tomb. Our transgressions are fully atoned.
Every day for the baptized is a good day to die."
What comes to us at Christmas is not a great seasonal bargain to enhance our happy holidays. It is the priceless gift of God’s Son.
The Devil cultivates fear of God and promotes motivation and zeal for outward works and earthly virtue out of pure eternal self-concern.
The cross presents us a radically different standard. In God’s justice executed in the cross of Christ, nobody gets what they deserve.
Proper preaching of good works is never for our encouragement.
You have suffered your son to come unto Jesus; but fathers, don’t let him die!