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Second Sunday of Advent
Blessed Lord, who caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of your holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives…
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Our place in the story
This week I am reading for Advent 2 and it’s “John the Baptist Week” so to speak. This has led me to this thought:
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First Sunday of Advent
Happy New Year! It is a new church year in a good percentage of churches around the world. A reminder that the Kingdom of God isn’t “in step” with this world’s calendar or agenda. It is good news just on that front for me!
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Happy New Year!
My journey into Anglicanism began years ago as a Pentecostal pastor learning from Lutheran ministers in my town and attending a Lutheran seminary. I am grateful for the streams of faith that bring me along as I follow Christ.
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Reading Revelation
It was in college I was freed from the fundamentalist timeline of “The Late Great Planet Earth” and the “Thief in the Night” movies of the 70s and 80s. One little book that freed me was by a pastor who described reading through Revelation together as a congregation on a series of Sunday nights. All they did was read it.…
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What does “salvation” look like?
In this season of daily reading I am struck over and over by what IS mentioned when it comes to eternal life and what is NOT mentioned. Today it was the story of Zaccheus in Luke 19. Zacchaeus knew his life was changed when Jesus wanted to come to his house. As the party is going, Zacchaeus makes his proclamation…
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Good news and bad news: Jesus will come again
The daily office readings for today include two very different perspectives on God dealing with his people. His coming. His coming again. Our responses. So, I have good news and bad news: Jesus will come again.
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The imperfection of Advent
I grew up without the concept of Advent in another Christian tradition. When I was pastoring and learned a bit more about it, we would walk through Advent in small ways. When I came into the Anglican Church, I have learned so much more.
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