1. There is a revival, no less real and even more definitive, taking place in every church, every weekend, where God’s people gather around his gifts.
  2. Jesus stands before the disciples as the bridge between heaven and earth, and between Old Testament and New Testament.
  3. This week we will take a closer look at God's love in Scripture.
  4. We too are God’s baptized, beloved, blood-bought believers. And no one can ever take that away from us.
  5. Forty days after giving birth, Mary, along with her husband Joseph, presented their firstborn Son at the temple and "bought" him back with a sacrifice of two small birds. This is known as the "Presentation of Our Lord."
  6. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  7. I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
  8. All of Scripture, every last syllable of it, is meant to drive us to "consider Jesus," the One who comes to "make us right" by gifting us his righteousness.
  9. Morons though we all have been, there is nothing we need that Christ hasn’t given us.
  10. It makes perfect sense that the day honoring Jesus' birth would be observed in a decidedly less than refined manner.
  11. The king has arrived and has already begun his reign forever and ever.
  12. God the Father sent us – his wayward, sinful, and naughty children – his own series of Father Christmas Letters.