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Expectancy or Expectations? Ready Or Not For God’s Work

I was fully of expectancy when our first son was born.  I had expectations when our second son was born.  With our first I had no idea what was going to happen, how it was going to be, or what he would be like.  I just knew I needed to be ready—for anything.  Because the […]

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3 Reasons Why “Jesus Is the Reason” Isn’t Saying Enough This Christmas

We shouldn’t just state the fact of Jesus being the reason for the saying—that we remember his birth at Christmas.   We need to fill this out—otherwise it just becomes a meaningless slogan in a hopeless culture war.  We need to look deeper.  Why did God come to earth for our salvation? What was God […]

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1 Thing about Advent We Usually Forget

We lose sight of the Spirit of Advent—and I don’t mean what you think. Advent is training in the art of waiting, learning to anticipate and long for the coming kingdom of God. Advent is learning to say, “Come, Lord Jesus, come.” Advent reminds us of the glorious coming of the Son in the first […]

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God With Us, #1: From Garden to Garden.

New Jerusalem, by Gustave Doré

The season of Advent prompts me to think on the coming of Christ, of Immanuel, God with us.  It makes me think of the deep mysteries of the Incarnation and the doctrine of Christology (that Christ is both God and human).  And yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent, the day in which we remember […]