1. In an autobiographical telling, Gretchen Ronnevik shares the fate of two different fathers and the hope she has in Christ.
  2. As You Wait: Always Winter Never Christmas is an Advent poem by Tanner Olson
  3. The following poem was written by Tanner Olson to accompany 1517’s 2023 Advent Resources, The Clothing of the King. Advent begins this Sunday.
  4. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  5. This article comes to us from our friend’s at Storymakers and was written by Jane Grizzle. For more information on Storymakers, please visit their website.
  6. We do not choose our struggles, but there is One who has chosen to always be with us.
  7. The Lord assures Jeremiah he has not forgotten him. He is there and will rescue him.
  8. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  9. Lord, remember us to remind us, that we may know all good things come from you.
  10. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  11. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  12. I’ve experienced firsthand the promise that God never leaves a congregation empty-handed.