At the end of each calendar year, Christians celebrate "Advent", a 4-week season of preparing our hearts and homes for the arrival of Jesus at Christmas. In this series, we'll consider how the event of Jesus's birth supplies us with durable hope, peace, joy, and love. Today's teaching is on how Jesus brings hope.

The bad news is that sin destroys every single relationship. The good news is that God has done something about it.

Humans are vulnerable to temptation which can lead to a decision to sin. But Christianity offers resources for resisting temptation, which leads to Christlikeness.

When God speaks, He owes no man an explanation.

God's big purpose is to fill the earth with His presence and His people.

God replaces chaos with form and order.

The Bible opens with a song that reveals to us how the world began and, more importantly, why the world began.