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  • The Nineteenth Day of Advent – God Speaking

    God speaks. Our response is to say something back, a word of witness to the world and a word of commitment to the Father.

  • The Eighteenth Day of Advent – These Are the Days!

    In the Day of New Beginnings, our choices are clear and possible.

  • The Seventeenth Day of Advent – Taking the Mantle

    The apex of it all is the coming of God in scruffy diapers, vulnerable and tiny. Flowing from that is the reality and hope that we can take up our mantles, follow him, and change the world.

  • The Sixteenth Day of Advent – Be Strong in the Lord

    Trust makes us strong because it starts with our need, which implies a certain weakness without the one we trust. God surrounds us. He is like an exoskeleton which fortifies us and protects us from evil.

  • The Third Sunday and Fifteenth Day of Advent- Rejoice!

    Today's Devotional Meditations, Music, and Video of This Morning's Service Third Sunday of Advent: My Soul Magnifies the Lord “And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord …” – Luke 1:46 The Magnificat remains one of the most glorious expressions of praise in all of musical literature. Perhaps, someday, in Heaven, God will allow…

  • The Good News of Advent

        A while back, I had just finished listening to Matthew in the New Living Translation. Listening to the bible is a valuable experience because we hear the words the way most of the early Jews and Christians heard them – orally. Switching translations jars our preconceptions and forces us to hear it like…

  • Paradoxical Psalms

    Photo by Edurne Chopeitia on Unsplash   The psalms are full of paradox; that is why I love them and relate to them so.   In the same breath: "God, you beat me up badly" and "God, you have always protected me."   And … "Where are you God?" coupled with "You are always with…

  • The Fourteenth Day of Advent – Yet, I Will Rejoice

      The Choice to Rejoice "Yet" is a powerful word.  "Yet I will rejoice," is a powerful statement of faith and obedience in defiance of our circumstance. Habakkuk 3:13-19 (NRSV) You came forth to save your people,to save your anointed.You crushed the head of the wicked house,laying it bare from foundation to roof. SelahYou pierced…

  • The Thirteenth Day of Advent – Renewed and Pressing On

    Photo by MIL-TECH PHARMA LTD on Unsplash Habakkuk 3:2-6 (New Revised Standard Version) O Lord, I have heard of your renown,and I stand in awe, O Lord, of your work.In our own time revive it;in our own time make it known;in wrath may you remember mercy.God came from Teman,the Holy One from Mount Paran. SelahHis…

  • The Twelfth Day of Advent – Go Out Weeping … Come with Shouts of Joy!

    Sow in Tears; Reap in Joy! Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash Psalm 126 A Song of Ascents. When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,we were like those who dream.Then our mouth was filled with laughter,and our tongue with shouts of joy;then it was said among the nations,“The Lord has done great things for…