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  • Come, Thou Long Expected One!

    Dayspring comes. It bursts forth in the darkness and illuminates every hidden thing. With Him are freedom, hope, consolation, and joy. In Him all of our longings are answered. Anticipation is rewarded and gifts are abundant. Come, Thou long expected Jesus!

  • To Be Loved as to Love

    Teach me to love by loving through me. Teach me to love by knowing again and again and again, how deep, How wide, How long, How long-suffering, How patient is Your love for me and that … It is all I need. So, filled with love, I can give love. In the Name of the…

  • Alpha and Omega – An Advent Reflection for Wednesday

    “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is  to come, the Almighty.”  Revelation 1:8 Everything is wrapped up in the babe who was wrapped in swaddling clothes.  In a tiny bundle of newborn humanity is the sum total of all truth and…

  • Losing Heart Is Not an Option

    Losing heart is simply not an option – even when we know that the heart that can be warmed by a loving embrace can be broken by pain. No walls are allowed here. All protective devices are disabled. We must be vulnerable and valiant and that is the path of joyful calling. Keep on keeping…

  • Strong at It’s Root – Advent Wednesday- 2018

    Father, out of a deep root, you formed a branch, a rod out of a stem. Father, out of our beginnings, you are forming something new. Because Thou hast sent Thine Only Begotten Son, We are a part of the vine that grows from Him. May we produce the fruit He intends so that every…

  • When? The Second Day of Advent

    Advent is, in part, about time and waiting. This is all the time that ever will be. We are about the step out of this realm into the timeless expanse of eternal glory. We are about to leap into God’s everlasting day.

  • AN Adjustment – Seven Remedies with AN Attitude

    Sometimes I need AN attitude adjustment. I just need to flip the switch from channel zero to channel one and start living on a higher level of thinking. It is possible, but there are some obstacles. It is then that I harness the power of one of many AN remedies. “Let this mind be in…

  • Beware of Me and Those Like Me

    The bottom line is that no matter how lofty and beautiful our words, if we do not live them in the way we treat the most vulnerable, they are meaningless. “While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Beware of the teachers of the law…'”

  • Talk of Advent

      What is all this cross talk at Advent and Christmas? it doesn't sound too gentle, warm, and cozy? What do you think he came for? That little vulnerable baby calls you to a life of vulnerability, self-denial, and radical discipleship. That's Advent! That's Christmas. I write this hearing Bing Crosby in the background singing…

  • He Says What He Says

    Throw all the trick questions at Jesus you like. Question him about dead issues, irrelevant issues, side issues, peripheral issues, issues and more issues … but he keeps going to the heart of the matter about God. God is about living! And he came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. It…