1. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  2. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  3. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  4. The following poem was written by Tanner Olson to accompany 1517’s 2023 Advent Resources, The Clothing of the King. Advent begins this Sunday.
  5. This is an excerpt from Chad Bird’s book, Your God is Too Glorious, 2nd Edition
  6. Every Christian should understand what it means to have a Great High Priest
  7. Jesus is always interceding for us
  8. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  9. The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
  10. God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
  11. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.