Advent (331)
  1. Winter Tour with Blake Flattley
  2. We don’t have to worry about deserving, earning, or reciprocating his gifts. Our Lord doesn’t give us what we deserve. We are given what he deserves, what Jesus has won for us.
  3. Winter Tour with Blake Flattley
  4. Moses was sent to keep the house in order, but this Child is sent to bring the house home, and you are part of that house, the household of God.
  5. Lutheran theology begins not with God in His terrifying majesty but with God in the flesh, God crucified for sinners. Advent is about this trajectory.
  6. The Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles to put God’s Word into human language has guided and guarded their transmission in the course of human history preserving them for the sake of the Gospel.
  7. Our Advent anticipation of the coming of the Savior to liberate us from sin and its wage of death, from the condemnation of God’s Law and the wrath of a loving heavenly Father, is indeed a daring and defiant stance.
  8. This Messiah is not a continuation—He is the fulfillment and the beginning of something new.
  9. The creation of this word reminds us that the Magnificat, like Christmas itself, is charged from the start with joy and praise.
  10. When Jesus assumes the body prepared for Him to do God’s will, the end of an old era has arrived, and with it, the beginning of a new.
  11. Big or small, potential or certain, the despair we may grapple with during this time of year tends to find its end in the fact that things are not as they should be.
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