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Your Kingdom Come

An Advent Exploration of Daniel
600 years before Jesus was born the first group of Jews were taken as captives to Babylon. There in a foreign land, with a violent king, Daniel and his friends were given glimpses of the future and witnessed miraculous intervention from the Lord. It was a time when warrior kings rose and fell and empires with them. But God showed Daniel that one Kingdom was coming that would never end because the King of that Kingdom was sent by God and would reign forever. As we prepare for Christmas and remember the first coming of the Lord Jesus we seek to live in service to Christ our King as we pray, “your kingdom come.” 

4. The Lion Tamer

Daniel in the lion’s den is not your usual Christmas Sunday message, but Daniel actually points ahead to Jesus very clearly. First, he was the righteous servant of the Lord, innocent of the wrongs of which he was accused. Second, he was the faithful son of God,...

3. The Humble King

In Daniel 4 Nebuchadnezzar has another dream, this time of a great tree that gets chopped down. His kingdom was supposed to provide food and safety and blessing for his people but instead the king made it about his own glory and comforts. And so God humbled...

2. The Fourth Man

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are household names for anyone who has gone to Sunday School. Three young Jewish men threatened with a flaming furnace refuse to bow to King Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue. The way God saved them is a picture of how He saves us: 1) by...

1. The Small Stone

Daniel was taken as a prisoner to Babylon along with a number of other young, talented Jews in 605 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar was taking over for his deceased father and had just defeated the Egyptians, marking Babylon as the new power in the region. But then the powerful...