I don’t think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me.
The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.
I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.