A Mighty Nation
God is faithfully unfolding the completion of a promise, but it is not yet fully revealed.
The Bible firmly and repeatedly reminds us that the failure, brokenness, fear, and sin in us—not just in the world—will be gone too.
We worship a God that enters in, connects, acts with compassion and commitment, and shares his image with us.
The people of God were living in the pain of destruction and oppression, but Isaiah was calling them to take heart in a brightness that would still come.
The king of the universe humbled himself in lowly position, with such great love, to know and be known with us.
Like with the witness John, someone’s introduction to the light of Christ will often come through the reflection in another person.
Advent has us claim the promise of God’s already-arrived-on-earth victory and long for the day of his return.
Darkness has a way of faking the win, making it seem as if its power is greater, and its reach all-consuming.