Advent.
- Advent Sunday.
- Scriptures for advent.
- Happy holidays!*
- It’s 4 January. It’s still Christmas. And this fact annoys you.*
- Nativity stories.
- Jn 1.1-5: Word!*
- Jn 1.1-13: Recognizing and embracing the light of the world.*
- Jn 1.14-18: The word became human, and explains God.*
- Jn 1.19-28: John the baptist, the second coming of Elijah.
- Lk 1.26-38: How Mary became Jesus’s mother.*
- Lk 1.39-45: Mary’s visit to Elizabeth.*
- Lk 1.57-80: The birth of John the baptist.*
- Mt 1.1-17: Jesus’s genealogy, in Matthew.
- Lk 3.23-38: Jesus’s genealogy, in Luke.
- Mt 1.18-25: How Joseph became Jesus’s father.
- Mt 1.18-21: Joseph, father of Jesus, prophet.
- Lk 2.1-7: Christ the Savior is born.*
- Lk 2.8-20: The sheep-herders’ vision of the angels.*
- Lk 2.21-40: The prophets who recognized Jesus.*
- Mt 2.1-3: The magi show up.
- Mt 2.3-6: Pinpointing Messiah’s birthplace.
- Mt 2.1-18: The magi and the monstrous king.*
- Messianic prophecies. Or fulfillments. Or not.
- Ge 3.14-15: The first prophecy of a savior.
- Nu 24.17: The star coming out of Jacob.
- Dt 18.15-19: The prophet like Moses.
- 2Sa 7.1-17: The heir to David’s throne.
- Ps 16.10: Not allowed to rot.
- Ps 110.4: Messiah and Melchizedek.
- Is 7.14: Jesus, our Immanuel.
- Is 9.6-7: The Son who was given us.
- Is 42.1-4, Mt 12.14-20: One who brings justice to the gentiles.
- Is 50.6: Plucking Jesus’s beard. Or not.
- Is 53: Our suffering servant.
- Jr 31.15-17: Rachel weeping for her children.
- Da 7.13-14: The Son of Man.
- Ho 11.1: “Out of Egypt I called my Son.”
- Mc 5.1-4: Christ is born in Bethlehem.
- Mt 2.23: Is there a prophecy of Jesus’s hometown?
- On the first advent.
- Ga 4.1-5: When the fullness of time came, God sent his Son.
- Pp 2.5-11: The Carmen Christi: When Jesus made himself nothing.
- Cl 1.15-20: The ikon of the invisible God.
- 1Pe 1.17-21: Foreknown before the world was founded.
- 1Jn 1.1-4: The living word. Whom the apostles have seen.
- The next advent.
- Jb 19.25-27: Job, the resurrection, and his redeemer.
- Ek 37.1-10: Dem bones.
- Mk 13.24-27: Jesus describes his second coming.
- Mk 13.32-37: When is Jesus returning?
- Mt 24.23-28: The Son of Man’s returning. And everyone will see it.
- Mt 25.1-13: The Five Stupid Teenagers Story.*
- Mt 25.13-30: The Talents Story.
- Ac 1.6-11: When Jesus got raptured.
- 2Th 2.1-12: Apostasy before the second coming.
- Jm 5.7-8: Set your hearts for Jesus’s return.
- 2Pe 3.1-9: No, seriously: When’s Jesus returning? He’s taking forever!