1. Jesus reveals to them again who He is. And that life can only be given when we feed on Christ.
  2. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  3. God has a hall ready for us, for us and for so many more
  4. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  5. The following poem was written by Tanner Olson to accompany 1517’s 2023 Advent Resources, The Clothing of the King. Advent begins this Sunday.
  6. When the waters of anxiety and depression rise, there is One who understands.
  7. 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.
  8. In that moment of greatest despair, we find the antidote for all our fears. We know we are beloved of God and there is salvation in Christ’s atoning death.
  9. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.
  10. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.
  11. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  12. 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.