Realizing our moment-by-moment dependence on God the Creator for our very existence makes it appropriate to live lives of devotion, commitment, gratitude, and loyalty toward him, and scandalous not to.
— J. I. Packer, Concise Theology (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993), 22.
In his classic story A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens describes the Advent season as “a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” At RTB,...
