1. 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).
  2. It is terribly easy to set up our theology as a buffer against the real coming of the Lord and its consequences.
  3. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  4. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  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. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  7. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  8. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  9. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  10. The Trinity is a handy shorthand for all that God has done to justify sinners.
  11. 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?
  12. That on Pentecost God’s Spirit should function through a dozen seeming inebriates should be no surprise when this same God saves through the ignominy of the cross.