This is an excerpt from this year’s 1517 Advent Devotional.
Thanksgiving, then, is not just about plenty. It is about redemption.
Why is it truly meet right and salutary that we should at all times and all places give thanks to God.

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As both law and gospel are proclaimed, judgment and deliverance are miraculously pronounced over the hearer.
Jesus took the poison of sin and drank the cup of wrath on our behalf to gain favor and righteousness for us.
The one who delights in the law of the Lord learns to fear his own good works and trust God outside of them.
God’s headline for his church prioritizes the person of Jesus and his purpose to demonstrate God’s power by dying and rising again for our salvation.
God can never really be said to be ignoring us, even if our experience with God at any given moment is that he is.
If your faith is rooted in the gospel of Zion, in the good news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection on your behalf, you are already a member of the “heavenly Jerusalem”
This is a companion article to “Johann Spangenberg on Dying Well”
It is your privilege—we may even say “right”—to call upon this Father and to call him Father.
Success is emphatically not your primary identity.
Moltmann is gone now, but his theology will continue to provoke and provide.
We know we are made for something great. We humans were created in God’s image and restored through Christ in his perfect image.
Now that the Lord of Sabaoth has involved himself, something ends, something is born.