The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

Angels are spirits on mission, and that mission is God's. So, we can say that God, out of his love, sends angels to aid us in our redemption. Angels are sent for our redemption, and that redemption leads us all the way into the heights of worship.

... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

I've never spoken with an angel, though one time I felt the awesome weight and glory of God's presence in an angel in my bedroom as I kneeled in prayer. I kept my eyes closed, good Baptist that I was at the time, so I never knew if it was an angel. (I now am reasonably confident it was.)