Sacraments (127)
  1. Asking, “Do you have to be baptized to be saved?” is really like asking, “Does Jesus have to save you in order for you to be saved?”
  2. Many sit and wait for judgment day to come, running through their performance in this life, hoping that the electing Judge found some reason to love them like Jacob.
  3. Perhaps the answer to creating a healthier church and a more invested people is found in preaching more clearly the full freeing Gospel.
  4. But when we trust Jesus, then we close our eyes to it all and say, “Heavenly Father, I’m your child.
  5. The only sea of tranquility that can unite God and man and bring brotherhood among us is found in the Word and sacraments.
  6. All other wonderful teachings of Holy Scripture from creation to Christ’s coming again are absolutely worthless without being understood in light of Jesus, death, and resurrection for sinners.
  7. That is why the church has to offer Super Bread and Super Wine, so that God can see that we are Super Christians.
  8. Heaven is as near as the Word proclaimed from the mouth of the preacher into the ear and heart of the sinner. It is as near as the bread and wine in your mouth. For, you see, Word and sacrament are where Jesus is.
  9. “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.”
  10. To lose a leader like this is always too soon!
  11. We aggrandize time. It certainly possesses power over us. It irreversibly moves us in one direction and can’t be replayed to different ends.
  12. Blessedness comes to us camouflaged as simple earthly words, water, bread and wine.
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