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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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Westworld and the Myth of Christmas | Mockingbird

On Westworld and Christmas.  Here is my conclusion. In contrast to this mythological framework, the Abrahamic faiths have no story of violence at the dawn of the world. Instead, the book of Genesis opening the Bible depicts the creation of all things in peaceful, even artistic, terms. The same is true of Christmas. At its […]

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Into the bare infinity of your uncrowded presence

Gifts often obscure the giver, when we are more interested in what we are receiving.  This is never more clear than in our lives of faith, when we celebrate the grace and gifts of God, but often we never move back toward the giver. Can we learn again to say, with Tagore, …raise me from […]