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. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  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. Logos theology is a theology of presence without division. It is a way of unification, of which the incarnation is the greatest visible example.
  8. To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!
  10. This is an excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  11. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.