Advent: Day Nineteen – Stranger
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and...
Advent: Day Eighteen – Pioneer + Perfecter
Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,...
Advent: Day Seventeen – Advocate
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the atoning sacrifice...
Advent: Day Sixteen – Healer
Jesus told them, “Go back to John and tell him what you have heard and seen—the blind see, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News...
Advent: Day Fifteen – Redeemer
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth. —Job 19:25 (NRSV)
Advent: Day Fourteen – Lamb of God
The next day [John] saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” —John 1:29 (ESV)
Advent: Day Thirteen – King of Kings
He…is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords. It is he alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor...
Advent: Day Twelve – The Way
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen...
Advent: Day Eleven – Beloved
“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.” —Matthew 12:18 (NRSV)
Advent: Day Ten – Friend
“I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from...