Success in ministry is not measured by the end result, it is measured by our faithfulness to the task.

Jesus has restored our created purpose and identity as image bearers.

It turns out that the baby Zechariah was longing for wasn’t his own, because the Light of Jesus had broken into the darkness to visit and redeem us.

Jesus is the satisfactions to the longings you’ve never even expressed, the answer to the questions you are too afraid to ask.

God sends a savior to redeem the unrepentant and sends grand signals to pave the way so that we won’t miss it.

Jesus was the chaste sacrifice devoted to death by the Father in order to lift the curse on His people and to secure victory over the enemy.

Demonstrating His grace by saving His people is an ordinary act for God overflowing from His character, and rebelling against Him always leads to a longing for a savior.

The enemy doesn’t want it to be public that God conquers through weakness, yet God will give His people an unexpected and unlikely salvation through the crushed head of the enemy.

If Gideon in his fear, vengeance, and disobedience could be anointed by the Spirit of God to save Israel; then Jesus, a truly obedient, covenant-keeping man could save the whole world.

God is on a mission for His Glory in the world, and He is inviting the weak and helpless to show Himself to be powerful and gracious.