1. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  2. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  3. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  4. What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.
  5. Great things are contained in these seemingly unimportant words: "Behold, your king." Such boundless gifts are brought by this poor and despised king.
  6. If there were ever any doubt about God's commitment to humanity, the incarnation removed that doubt. God became a man forever. And thus he is our brother, our kinsman redeemer, the God who would move heaven and earth to save us.
  7. Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.
  8. The church’s song goes on and on, singing and ringing down to us today.
  9. This Christmas season we are thankful that even though we “fallers” are unable to climb up to God, he came down the ladder to us.
  10. While the world and other religions might be fine with considering him everything but, the foremost thing our Jesus came to be and still remains is Jesus, Savior.
  11. Buried deep in our human psyche, there seems to be more than a need—almost a necessity—to celebrate the arrival of a new year. It’s like an unspoken, unlegislated cultural demand, as instinctual as moving to music or smiling at a newborn. Why? What deep human need is at work here?