1. Advent is something of a liturgical speed bump that slows us down lest we rush to Christmas but forget that the baby born in Bethlehem will return with glory and power to judge the living and the dead.
  2. Confident in the good and gracious will of God revealed not by reason but by Christ, Christians are free for the vocation of citizenship without nationalistic idolatry.
  3. Like the Apostle Paul, Thielicke’s preaching extols the truth that in life and in death, we belong to the Lord.
  4. Because Immanuel is with us, we can pray with boldness and confidence, that is, with the courage born of faith.
  5. It might be said of Thielicke’s preaching of the parables, he does not throw sticks of dynamite, but sets little time bombs which explode, sometimes in unexpected ways, in the minds and hearts of those who hear him.

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