Celebrating Advent with an Advent Wreath
Advent is a time to join together with others to celebrate the coming of Christ’s birth.
Advent is a time to join together with others to celebrate the coming of Christ’s birth.
Today’s culture does not naturally move students toward this kind of Christ-centered life. That’s where you come in, as a mentor.
The Christian practice of articulating who God is rests upon the foundational revelation given to us in the gospel—the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as presented in holy Scriptures.
How do children become Christians? It is no different for children than it is for adults. It’s simple, yet deeply profound.
How should Christians and churches handle finances? Jesus modeled the way for us and gave us instructions that make no sense according to the economy of this world.
Sin may satisfy temporal desires, but virtue satisfies our deeply felt divine longings.
The nature of God’s love means that nothing can be done to make God love a person more.
We need to engage in more than half-hearted attempts at reading our Bible and praying. And it needs to start with addressing all of the distractions we face on a daily basis.
Once we were no people, but now we are God’s people (1 Peter 2 :10). We are drawn into the life of God, and we are thereby changed.
Jesus connects the mission of the church, the reception of the Holy Spirit, and forgiveness. He makes forgiveness what the church, the community of disciples, does in the world.
To deny ourselves would be to deny those basic worldly, sinful impulses that seem so attractive to us on their surface.
Reading the Bible can lead to knowledge of God, and knowledge of God can lead to salvation.