The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.
GerhardWe are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.
GerhardI blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.
Gerhard...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.
GerhardA theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who โlooks on all things through suffering and the crossโ is constrained to speak the truthโฆit will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect.
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