1. More than that, as children of the One who is the Resurrection and the eternal Life, as children who have themselves been both justified and regenerated, live as if Christ has already reappeared, as if the parousia has happened.
  2. We of all people, because of Christ, can build securely on the future because the truth of Christ runs from the past to the present, establishing a most certain future.
  3. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
  4. The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
  5. The Gospel outpaces all would-be and eventually fleeting identity-makers and brings in the truth of a renewed-in-Christ humanity.

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