1517 Blogcast

How do you handle the combination of waiting for things you want and trusting in promises for something with which you have no experience?

The Church is always in Advent, and every Christian constantly lives in Advent

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We are given, so we give thanks, and we give thanks by giving.

The closer we want to get to God, the more self-centered and shallow we will become trying to get there.

In reality faith and hope are barely discernible one from the other, yet there is a certain difference between them.

Life includes suffering that we will have to endure. Life will not go as planned nor as we would hope, but "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."

The following is an excerpt from “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory” written by Steven A. Hein (1517 Publishing, 2015).

Jesus overcame sin, death, and Satan on the cross. His bloody suffering and death marked this sinful world's defeat.

We are both “guilty of dust and sin” and totally exonerated as worthy guests in the eyes of Love.