Thoughts by Pastor Bernie on the 21 days to get ready for Advent

My guest blogger is my pastor, Bernie Ansorge...


John 1-Day 1--God had always spoken His Word, but people without faith were deaf to God. They could not hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. So God clothed His Word in a human body so that when He spoke He would have an audience that heard and listened. God still does that today--we are Gods voice. What do others hear when we speak? Is our message grace and truth as Jesus revealed it? He is Gods Word and I'd the touchstone that judges us as we speak.
God was glorified via the birth and life of Jesus. Yet, when Jesus revealed Gods glory, His witnesses saw more than the glory of Gods powerful works and His unrelenting judgments over against sin; they were washed clean by the glorious truth of Gods grace.


John 2--Day two of Twenty-one days to prepare for Advent.  Jesus reveals He is the Messiah by changing water to wine and by declaring that He will take the place of the Temple as the access point to God.

Jesus validated these signs by His rising to life again after His crucifixion. To those who believed in Him, He gave them the privilege of access to God as sons and heirs of the Heavenly Father.

Therefore, we should not trifle with the Messiah, Jesus


Pastor Bernie has been  pastor of Ascensions Lutheran Church  in Huntsville AL for over 40 years.  He lives with his wife Grace and has three children and 5 grand children.