Advent (22)
  1. The promise of Advent is the promise of the lamb slain, who is born and given for us so that we don’t have to fear sin, death, and hell.
  2. Most days, we're not okay. We're not good enough, strong enough, or "Christian" enough.
  3. Jesus isn't just "the reason for the season." He's the reason we don't have to cross off "spiritually bankrupt," "mentally compromised," and "physically vulnerable" from our Christmas list.
  4. Planking with Brennan Manning... Gillespie and Riley follow up their reading of Brennan Manning's Advent Meditation, "Shipwrecked at The Stable" by discussing why Roman Catholic theology, as Manning presents it, is so appealing to Protestants.
  5. What Jesus says is simple, but the simplest things are difficult, and difficulty causes friction.
  6. Planking with Brennan Manning... This week, Gillespie and Riley dive into Brennan Manning's Advent Meditation, "Shipwrecked at The Stable," and they go deep into Manning's expression of Roman Catholic theology.
  7. Advent is the season when the Church declares to a world overwhelmed by excuses, lies, and cruelty that their Savior comes.
  8. Our relief when we're troubled can't be found at the end of all our preparations and celebrations, no matter how pious our intent.
  9. Jesus isn't Superman. He's not from another planet. He's from Earth.
  10. This time of year, Christmas time, the world isn't so much Christ-expectant as it is Christ-haunted.