Advent with the Puritans
Four Advent Sundays and Christmas Eve, opened by Calvin, Henry, Flavel, Sibbes and Ryle. Every quotation is checked against a scan of the printed page, so nothing in your pulpit is made up.
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Five texts, from promise to fulfillment
| Week 1 | Isaiah 9:6–7 · A Child Born, a Son Given | November 29 |
| Week 2 | Galatians 4:4–5 · When the Fulness of the Time Was Come | December 6 |
| Week 3 | John 1:14 · The Word Was Made Flesh | December 13 |
| Week 4 | Luke 2:8–14 · Glory to God in the Highest | December 20 |
| Christmas Eve | Matthew 1:21–23 · God with Us | December 24 |
For each service
- A short framing of the text and where the old writers take it
- Five or six quotations, each cited to edition, volume and page
- A summary of how Calvin, Henry, Flavel, Sibbes or Ryle worked the passage
- A suggested outline that follows their structure
- Angles for application: the grieving, the anxious, the once-a-year guest
Check every line yourself
“Heaven took notice of him when earth regarded him not.”
Richard Sibbes, The Angels' Acclamations, in Works, ed. Grosart (Nichol, 1863), vol. 6, p. 320. See the page
The table at the back of the guide links every quotation to a public-domain scan of the page it came from. Old spelling is kept, and nothing inside quotation marks is paraphrased.
Who made this
I'm Chase Davis, lead pastor of The Well Church in Boulder. Most of us have been burned at least once by an AI tool that hands back a confident quotation from a book that doesn't say it. I built Commonplace to do this kind of research with real quotes and real pages, and this guide is what it produces.