1. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  2. What (if anything) makes a sermon distinctive?
  3. When you see the year ending, thank the Lord, because he had led you into this cycle of years.
  4. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  5. Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
  6. Sunshine and rain, food and harvests, family, friends, and health, love and joy. All these things and more he gives, not because of what you do or don’t do, but because he is generous and gracious.
  7. For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of him who works.
  8. It all starts with God; and it all ends with God. He is the alpha and omega of giving and generosity.
  9. We ache in eager anticipation as we see Christ in action and as we take in the snapshots of his life, death, and resurrection.
  10. 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.
  11. Even though All Saints is a day for remembering the dead, it is not a day of mourning.
  12. This is an excerpt from the Sinner/Saint Advent Devotional (1517 Publishing, 2022). Now available for purchase!