| Fleming Rutledge: John the Baptist Points to the Real Hope of Advent
We’re not awaiting a helpless baby, but a righteous and powerful judge.
Fleming Rutledge
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would be hard to say which is more alien to our contemporary ideas of
getting ready for Christmas, the season of Advent or the figure of John
the Baptist—the man who greeted the Pharisees and Sadducees by calling
them a “brood of vipers” (Matt. 3:7, ESV throughout). How would you like
to get that on a Christmas card?
This
unlovable figure is very much out of sync with our times, yet he is one
of the foremost figures of Advent, at least in the preaching calendar
followed in my ...
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Friday, November 30, 2018
John the Baptist Points to the Real Hope of Advent
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