2nd Sunday of Advent
Prayer Book: “Promise of Peace”
In the in-between time of Jesus’s coming and coming again, we long for peace. That longing is expressed in prayer, calling on God to keep his promises to make all things new—inc...
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Breaking Idols: “Peace”
How can peace be established? Sometimes it takes only the smallest slight to reveal the hostility that lies underneath our polite interactions. So much divides us: thoughts, bel...
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Kingdom Seeds: Growing
Too often the church talks about our building the kingdom of God on earth. However, Scripture reminds us that any kingdom we build becomes Babylon. Jesus’s Parable of the Growin...
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Shipharh and Puah: Women of Integrity
No one would have blamed them, after all, they didn’t really have a choice: they were slaves, they were single, and they didn’t even have a family. But, when it came time to dec...
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A Person for Others
As we wait, Jesus doesn’t call us to a cloistered life. We are a people on mission, so we are to have a posture of seeking the good of all people, even over our own rights. In t...
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Advent: Peace
The second characteristic that a people who wait must have is peace. This is not the peace and quiet that we try to get from our jobs or our kids. This is not the peace of avoid...
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Perceiving the Paradigm
How can we have peace when we seem so determined to destroy ourselves. What hope do we have when we have turned our backs on God? We need someone to rescue us in spite of oursel...
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