Promises of God (7)
  1. What a small thing in the big picture to give his head for the Head of the Church who would give his life for John and all sinners.
  2. God gives good gifts to underserving workers. God gives good gifts to all of them.
  3. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  4. Sometimes loss is gain. Sometimes defeat is victory. Sometimes weakness is strength. Sometimes death is life. Sometimes, that is, when Christ is at the center, on his cross and not in his tomb.
  5. Christ has received the mark of law that we might be marked with the gospel, with the sign of his holy cross on our heads and hearts as redeemed children of God.
  6. “The days are coming,” and God said it. God, who kept his promise that Christ would come at Christmas.
  7. It seems like the sky is falling every other day now. From politics to culture to religion to about anything else, there’s one purported cataclysm after another on the horizon.