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December 2025

December 22, 2025

Advent & Christmas Miscellany, 12/22/25

A special Miscellany to finish off Advent and open up to Christmas: I with you...

December 12, 2025

Candlelight & Advent

Advent is a season of darkness. But the symbol of Advent is candlelight. The small,...

November 2025

November 28, 2025

Advent, Waiting, and the Virtue of Patience

Advent is a season built around waiting. Today our culture demands immediacy and instant gratification....

December 2024

December 23, 2024

The Christmas Music That Is Advent Music

Much of our Christmas music, both sacred and secular, is actually Advent music, expressing a...

December 12, 2024

Light of Light

An Advent custom is contemplating Christ as the light of the world. We know much...

December 10, 2024

Wars and Rumors of War

The "wars and rumors of wars" that Jesus said would be a sign of the...

December 06, 2024

Luther on Christ’s Return

Advent is the appointed time to contemplate Christ's return. But we need to be careful...

December 03, 2024

He Came, He Comes, He Will Come

Advent celebrates Christ's coming, which happened in the past in Bethlehem, will happen in the...

December 27, 2023

The Lutheran Connection to Advent Calendars

Advent Calendars as we know them go back to the 1920s when Gerhard Lang published...

December 22, 2023

Hamas, Bible Prophecy, and Dispensationalism

As we come to the last post in Advent, it's evident that even many Christians...

December 08, 2023

Progressive Nihilism

Progressives, whether liberals or revolutionary Marxists, used to believe that we were progressing towards a...

December 20, 2022

With the End of the World Comes the New Creation

When we meditate on the End Times, which we are supposed to do during Advent,...

December 19, 2022

The Latest Heretical Movement

Among the signs of the End Times are false prophets, false Christs, and miracle workers. ...

December 14, 2022

“Many Shall Be Offended”

An End Times preacher cites how people are always claiming to be "offended" all the...

November 2022

November 28, 2022

Come, Lord Jesus

We've been worrying about politics and sorting through political theories. But Advent is a good...

December 2021

December 13, 2021

For Luther, Advent Is about God’s Grace, not Our Preparation

Two Episcopalians learn from Luther about the best way to observe Advent: The focus should not...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

Luther on Advent

"He comes." That is what "advent" means. But there is more to it than that: ...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

Advent Teaches Us to Wait

Advent is a season that is all about waiting--for the Messiah, for His Second Coming,...

December 03, 2018

Advent and the Problem of Evil

Fleming Rutledge reminds us that Advent is not primarily about the baby Jesus. Rather its...

December 18, 2017

Comfort, Comfort My People

One of the greatest texts for Advent is Isaiah 40. It reminds us that Advent is...

December 11, 2017

“Your Thirst for My Salvation”

We often think of God as an abstract idea, as an impersonal force, or as...

December 08, 2017

Man Wants to Be God; God Wanted to Be Man

How different from us is God! How different in His thinking, His desires, and His...

December 05, 2017

God Acts for Those Who Wait for Him

Why doesn’t God do something about all the evil in the world? The Bible says...

December 04, 2017

The Season of Christ “Coming to” Us

The season of Advent has begun! The word comes from the Latin, meaning “coming to”...

December 12, 2016

“Even if they are fools, they shall not go astray”

More prophecies of the coming of Christ for our Advent contemplation: Isaiah 35, yesterday's Old...

December 06, 2016

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Another remarkable prophecy of Christ in the Old Testament (the study of which is a...

December 05, 2016

And now, the commercialization of Advent

One reason that many Christians are rediscovering Advent is that Christmas has become so commercialized....

December 02, 2016

“They have pierced my hands and feet”

As we contemplate the prophecies of Christ for Advent, we should turn to perhaps the...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows”

Studying the prophecies of Christ in the Old Testament during Advent is a good exercise....

November 28, 2016

Explaining Advent

Happy New Year! That is to say, Happy Advent, the beginning of the new church...