1. A.I. can’t make the proclamatory move that delivers God’s word in a way that is specifically for me.
  2. When and how did the church start this season of anticipation?
  3. Help comes for those who cannot help themselves. When we bottom-out and come to the end of ourselves, that is where hope springs.
  4. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  5. 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.
  6. Preachers and church workers must also hear the gospel preached to them.
  7. Through water, blood, and word, the Spirit never stops pointing us to Christ, and even more, giving us Christ.
  8. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  9. We need to hear the gospel because it is good news that is not from you, or about you, or because of you.
  10. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!