Only the Christian’s Left Foot Remains in the Grave
What joy is ours as resurrection people to participate is Christ’s own great mission of seeking, finding and saving the lost!
What joy is ours as resurrection people to participate is Christ’s own great mission of seeking, finding and saving the lost!
My reason follows after, in the wake of faith, and convinces me that the universe is simply too ordered and too complex to exist by chance.
Learn Luther’s method of prayer, which interestingly encompasses both rote and free prayer!
Jesus comes to [John the Baptist] at the Jordan from Galilee and desires to be baptized [Matt. 3:13]. How marvelously backward this is!
As we await the advent of Christ, we need the same consolations for our times
If the future of the Church depends upon us, then we are sunk.
Wherever the Gospel and Sacraments are—enough to bring people to true faith in the true Jesus—there is the Church.
So it is with marriage. You won’t get very far trying to travel alone in a relationship, talking to yourself, or at someone else.
Read one Synod president’s words, which comprise a beautiful, urgent admonition for synod conventions to be, above all, doctrinal and to be doctrinal in order to be about mission.
Our house of faith is built on the Rock!
“Whether proclaimed by a layperson, preacher—indeed by the devil himself,” the Word does its work.
Christ has given us both spiritual priests and pastors. That’s His mission paradigm. When both are functioning as God has given, there is mutual love and complementary support.