1. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  2. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  3. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  4. 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.
  5. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  6. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  7. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  8. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  9. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  10. We did not say “Goodbye” to our son on the day of his burial. We said, “Luke, we’ll see you soon.”
  11. The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
  12. After the big, splashy, exciting day of Pentecost in Acts 2, church life faded into the ordinary life of ragtag sinners encountering the God of the cross coming to them in seemingly unawesome ways. What can we learn from this?