1. The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
  2. Getting ready for Christ’s coming is a practice in humility.
  3. “The days are coming,” and God said it. God, who kept his promise that Christ would come at Christmas.
  4. If Jesus is indeed the same yesterday, today, and forever, everything his enfleshment brings is already assured: life, salvation, and forgiveness.
  5. One could reason that God might, at least, give the church a little worldly power.
  6. While the insights in each chapter are uniquely personal to the individual writers, the overarching theme is one of the sufficiency of Christ.
  7. Christ has taken our failures and defeats and exchanges that yoke for his own.
  8. This is a Q&A for 1517 Publishing’s newest release, “How Melanchthon Helped Luther Discover the Gospel,” by Lowell C. Green. This release also marks the launch of our new Melanchthon Library.
  9. Our Lord is not only the King of creation but the King of creativity.
  10. To repent in his name is done thus: in those who believe in Christ God through the same faith works a change for the better, not for a moment, nor for an hour, but for their whole life.
  11. Except for the Augsburg Confession, Melanchthon’s Loci communes of 1521 were the most important of his writings.
  12. Rachel was the beloved wife, to be sure, but she was not the maternal link between Eve and Mary. That blessed position belonged to Leah.