Sacraments (127)
  1. Looking back on the year, the narrative we’re fed is that we should be able to show how much we’ve grown, how much we’ve done, all the successes we’ve had, how improved we are.
  2. If someone confesses their sins into my ears, I have no options but to forgive them in the name of Christ.
  3. Christ’s indwelling in the Christian must be tied relentlessly to these external and objective events of God’s own action.
  4. Fear strikes the hearts of the people who witness the crossing of the Jordan and the commander of the LORD’S army shows up.
  5. The real problem with the way we talk about Baptism in particular, and the sacraments at all, is that we are simply afraid of letting God’s Word get us.
  6. The communion service is a sermon in and of itself. The communion sermon is that which most expressly tells us of the sinless One who stands in the sinner’s stead.
  7. The 'church' is neither your mega-complex nor is it you alone with your own private devotions.
  8. The Holy Spirit keeps us in faith and pours us out into the world so others may also hear and believe.
  9. While the Holy Spirit does work within us, He always comes to us from the outside, through the external Word and Sacraments.
  10. Today’s advice for the anxious and worried would have likely horrified Luther.
  11. The words “for you” are what deliver burdened hearts into the glorious light of freedom, for they deliver the precious, life-giving cargo of God’s relentless grace to each of us.
  12. No matter what happens, whether failure, pain, or discouragement, Jesus says, “Come to me... and I will give you rest"
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