Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice of an echo. Gratitude follows grace like thunder and lightning. from Church Dogmatics
03970 – Grace & Gratitude
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02456 – Clasp Your Hands in Prayer
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
01845 – Arrogance is Sin
The root and origin of sin is the arrogance in which man wants to be his own and his neighbor’s judge.--------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: The root and origin of sin is the arrogance in which one wants to be one's own and one's neighbor’s...
01355 – Good News!
The good news of the gospel is that God has time for us.
01258 – Swimming Against the Tide
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it...accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would...
00731 – Wider and Transformed Worship
In all its elements,…Christian worship is the action of God, of Jesus, and of the community itself for the community, and therefore the upbuilding of the community. From this center, it can and should spread out into the wider circle of the everyday life of Christians...
00059 – God Helps Justice & Love
It is simply out of the question that God ‘helps’ the Germans or the French or the English. God does not even ‘help’ us Swiss. God helps justice and love. God helps the kingdom of heaven, and that exists across all national boundaries. The foolish mixing of...