1. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  2. How’s your ticker?
  3. When you see the year ending, thank the Lord, because he had led you into this cycle of years.
  4. What’s the big deal about Jesus’ name?
  5. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.
  6. Rick Ritchie gives a brief summary on the importance of Plato’s thought in Christianity
  7. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  8. In an autobiographical telling, Gretchen Ronnevik shares the fate of two different fathers and the hope she has in Christ.
  9. There is no justification by the works of the law
  10. The following poem was written by Tanner Olson to accompany 1517’s 2023 Advent Resources, The Clothing of the King. Advent begins this Sunday.
  11. An Anglo-Saxon poem gives fresh insight to the cross