Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
01215 – Worship, Inside God’s Own Heart
The feeling of communion was already so intense that I did not go forward for the bread and wine. I let the body go forward for me, while I sat there in God's pleasure. Before Christ Church, I thought that worship was something people cooked up by themselves. At...
00354 – Christianity, not Comfort
I haven’t always been a Christian. I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port wine would do that. If you want a religion to make you really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
00192 – Welcome! Come Eat with Us!
But the Gospel doesn’t need a coalition devoted to keeping the wrong people out. It needs a family of sinners, saved by grace, committed to tearing down the walls, throwing open the doors, and shouting, “Welcome! There’s bread and wine. Come eat with us and talk.”...
00103 – Hell Cannot Prevail
As long as Christians are breaking the bread and pouring the wine, as long as we are anointing the sick and baptizing sinners, as long as we are preaching the Word and paying attention, the church lives, and Jesus says the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.