1. We can’t predict the harvest. We can only sow.
  2. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  3. Reading includes, on some level, striving. Hearing, on the other hand, remains passive.
  4. Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
  5. The law had to have its way with the expert to bring him around (and back) to Abraham's response.
  6. For almost three years, I have produced a weekly video in the series “Reading the Gospels through Hebrew Eyes.” Here is an index of all the Gospel readings covered so far, with links to their YouTube videos.
  7. It makes perfect sense that the day honoring Jesus' birth would be observed in a decidedly less than refined manner.
  8. By his first Advent in the flesh, through his second Advent with bread and wine and water and Word, we await his third Advent at the end.
  9. The waiting of Advent isn’t just for Christmas; it’s for God’s reversal of all sin and evil and his renewal of all things.
  10. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  11. 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.
  12. One of the primary reasons we do not have to fear the future is because the future is certain in Christ.