One generation hands down the Kingdom to the next generation.

Your identity is not primarily from your father. Your identity is primarily from your Father. In a culture where the man's lineage was everything to him, God used a woman to bring His Son into the world to save us.

The paradoxes of Advent: 1) Anticipation vs. Consummation 2) Darkness vs. Light 3) Confession vs. Pardon 4) Fasting vs. Feasting 5) Excess vs. Lavishness

Exodus 31:12, 13 - Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy'".

ReExamining some of the rituals that are observed in many churches.

Alex Nsengiman, a Rwandan genocide survivor, tells his story of how God used a shoebox from Operation Christmas Child to change his life.

Hebrews 10:10 - And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

You don't obey in order to be able to be made holy. You are made holy in order to be able to obey.

1)God sanctifies people through Christ. 2)People sanctify God. 3)People sanctify people, places, and things.

1 John 3:1 How great is the Father's love that He has lavished on us.