1. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  2. Rejoice with Mary as she would rejoice with you. Be blessed, like her, with humility from God, so that you may serve joyfully and willingly wherever and in whatever role God has placed you.
  3. 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.
  4. God is not calling us to “grow up.” He is calling us to dependence.
  5. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  6. All our sin and shame is answered for in the death and resurrection of our Lord.
  7. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  8. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  9. The mind-blowing part of this entire story, though, isn’t that only one leper came back to “give thanks,” but that the Lord Jesus healed all ten knowing full well that only one would come back.
  10. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  11. Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.