Advent: December 2
Grace and peace. As we begin our individual and unique processes of reflection over 2020, grace and peace would perhaps be the last descriptive words to show up in our minds rather than the first.
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The journey of Advent is one that can help us to reorient our hearts to significant truths that we know and have experienced but sometimes grow slightly amnesic to.
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Most of us just want 2021 to be different from 2020. Dare we hope the Advent season can be the precursor to that change? Some of us know by experience that God’s presence is what we need.
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Every year, Christians around the world gather together to celebrate the arrival of the King who came as a pauper, the God who became a man, the light of the world who dispels the darkness.
Continue ReadingAdvent Day 24: Jesus
Repeatedly throughout the Bible we see examples of the importance of names as signifiers. Whether a name serves as a testament to God, like Samuel…
Continue ReadingAdvent Day 23: Immanuel
In the first round of the 2003 NBA playoffs, at the third game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Mavericks, 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert stood in the middle of the basketball court to sing the national anthem.
Continue ReadingAdvent Day 22: Son of God
Two years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, a temple was built on the site where he was cremated and he was formally deified.
Continue ReadingAdvent Day 21: Son of Man
When Jesus talks about Himself or refers to His deeds or ministry, He refers to Himself as Son of Man more often than anything else.
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