1. The waiting of Advent isn’t just for Christmas; it’s for God’s reversal of all sin and evil and his renewal of all things.
  2. Let us rejoice, then, in this grace so that our glory may be the testimony of our conscience wherein we glory not in ourselves but in the Lord (2 Cor. 1:12).
  3. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  4. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  5. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  6. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  7. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  8. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  10. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  11. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  12. We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”