Advent (26)
  1. 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.
  2. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
  3. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
  4. The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
  5. There is no other transitionary event in human history that warrants three full months of focused attention and persistent acknowledgment than the incarnation of the Son of God.
  6. The mystery has been revealed! The mystery, of course, is the Gospel!
  7. These exhortations are dependent upon the accomplishments of Christ in the first Advent, with the upshot that upon the final advent the faithful will stand “sanctified completely” and “blameless.” Be mindful of both, neglect neither.
  8. The sneak-peek vision of the world to come, a preview of the Last Day, the Day of the Lord, has already been revealed, declares Peter.
  9. Human history and especially the Christian life have a shape and Jesus is its shaper at every point.
  10. Preach the full council of God even as it focuses on the Virgin Mary who was the virginal handmaid of the Lord and through whom Immanuel, “God with us,” happens.
  11. The reality of the Incarnation and the accomplishments of the Incarnate God-man, Jesus the Son, are even more astonishing because His story brings to a climax the long-storied history of Israel, with all her divinely-inspired and prophetic Scriptures.
  12. James takes the Jewish expectation and thoroughly baptizes it in the light of the fact of the Incarnation. Messiah has come.
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