Tag: advent
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Advent for a too familiar Nativity
GOOD NEWS! Aren’t you glad you’re NOT a preacher this ‘Christmas’ season? After all, how much more can we say about the nativity of the Lord Jesus in Bethlehem. WE have preached the Gospel every year — the openings of the Gospels applicable to our pageants, programs, concerts, carolings, Christmas Eve services, Midnight Masses, Christmas…
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The Christ Child bound in the womb of eternity
A human life is bound in the womb of eternity. In one sense a child is not fully born by its mother into the fullness of life — but only into a helpless and limited mortal life — where babe may become child, child may become man or woman — this quick-passing human life bound…
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Matthew 25 – Parable of the Ten Virgins
Awake, the voice is calling us! “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” (literally: Awake, the voice is calling us) is a Lutheran hymn written in German by Philipp Nicolai, first published in 1599 together with “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern”. It appears in German hymnals and in several English hymnals in translations such as “Wake,…
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A COVID Christmas – Shall we take Jesus out of the box?
Happy Holidays NO, I’m not taking a trip to relatives or friends and setting Scripture aside for a time. (And it has nothing to do with #socialdistancing.) In my previous holiday post, COVID – The Sĭn’ch WHO Stole Thanksgiving, I suggested that we make too much of certain holidays. Although the American tradition of Thanksgiving…
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Between Sabbaths – Convocations and Holiness
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. Leviticus 23:2 KJV Holy Holidays We’ve lost something of the holiness of the holidays in the translation. Worldliness seeps steadily into our daily lives and we…
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The Beginning of the End – A Burden of the Prophets
Prophets – Predictions of Destruction, Redemption and the Messiah How many Prophets can you name? Why do some prophets have a book and others do not? Is every prophet of God? Why all the predictions of destruction? These are but a few of the unanswered questions about the prophets. Major prophets, minor prophets, false prophets,…
