Lectionary: Series A (103)
  1. Therefore, on the cusp of Christmas the message of the fourth week in Advent heightens our anticipation and joy, but also the unvarnished truth about the challenge of following the crucified King.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
  5. For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.
  6. The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.
  7. There is life after death and, more gloriously, there is life after life after death, the resurrection of the body.
  8. Mindful that the pagans’ understanding of death is a finality, Paul says, “NO!” Death is not the end of humanity in God’s new world.
  9. Passover is the story that lets us interpret the full meaning of Christ’s death and resurrection.
  10. The Church is like a beehive: One working for all and affecting all and all working for and affecting one.
  11. Paul has discovered something to put on the credit side in comparison with which everything else he can imagine can only be a debt.
  12. Throughout the Gospels there is no quality more closely identified by Jesus with the life of His people than humility which echoes His own.
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