Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

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.

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

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

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.)