1. Mark reminds us in this text that John was a redirection specialist. Come to think of it, so are you.
  2. The message we proclaim will and must always be that Jesus died and rose again. This is the full good news we need.
  3. The future has come, and the future comes in the resurrected Christ who is present with His real voice and His real Presence in His holy Word and blessed Sacraments.
  4. The Magnificat invites us to enter into, consider, and embrace the worldview of a teenaged Jewish girl and her geriatric aunt: The one bearing the prophet Elijah which was to come and the other carrying within her womb the God whom she and her nation worshipped and feared.
  5. It is the love of God that reveals Him as the promise-making, promise-keeping God.
  6. Mary hears the word of God and then waits on the Word of God to be born from her womb.
  7. C.S. Lewis, Grief, and the Holiday Season
  8. As You Wait: Always Winter Never Christmas is an Advent poem by Tanner Olson
  9. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson examine the opening words of the Gospel of Mark.
  10. Jesus is situated at the center of world history, a history which is going somewhere, from an Alpha point to the Omega point, and it pivots on the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ.
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