1. Fullness, truth, reality – all this God gives us as his gift in Christ.
  2. The usual acclamation when one becomes King is: “Long live the King!” But this King of kings, this son of David, has come to die.
  3. As the writer to the Hebrews affirms, what makes the Christian gospel so much better is that we are no longer dealing with “types and shadows."
  4. Who would ever want all these screamers and haters? It turns out that Christ does.
  5. When the church is a political actor, the gospel doesn’t have the final word.
  6. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  7. We live again, not so that we will now pay our debt, but to proclaim that we live because our debt was paid!
  8. We don’t start with behavior and work toward Christ. We start with Christ and everything works out from there.
  9. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022), written by Kathy Morales and Kyle G. Jones.
  10. The good news is that with our God there is always more: more than we deserve, dare, ask, or expect, more than we can see, hear, feel, or think.
  11. Every incendiary move of God’s Spirit is accompanied by a group of penitent people rediscovering the power and preeminence of God’s Word.
  12. The reason that God’s commandments are not burdensome is that Jesus has fulfilled them.