1. You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
  2. 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.
  3. John’s excitement invites his readers to lay hold of this above all else: The lavish love of God.
  4. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  5. If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
  6. We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.
  7. Authentic proclamation, then, is the love of Christ for our souls, which we have seen and experienced through the under-shepherd’s pastoral care put into the words of Christ Himself.
  8. The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.
  9. Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
  10. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
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