1. The answer to our messages is God's "yes," Jesus, who sends his preachers to proclaim that there's no place for us now other than in the grip of our God and Savior.
  2. In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
  3. 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.
  4. That great truth of creedal Christianity – that God is man in Christ – is not set forth for our speculative enjoyment.
  5. To trust in the Lord, the Messiah, the Deliverer, is our salvation and our only hope. Yet he does not trust us to have this “trust” on our own or of our own will.
  6. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  10. 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.
  11. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  12. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.