Category: Anthology of Advent

Today we commemorate the Holy Innocents. We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love, and peace; through…
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This week , the 4th week of Advent centers on Love. God’s Love for us through the advent of Jesus Christ, Y’eshua, Isa al Masih, is the act by which our lives and this world can be transformed to something new, lovely, joyous and whole.  December 7th this year, would have been my brothers’ 66th…
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Advent 2025 Week 2 This week, week 2, of Advent  we light the candle of peace. In honor of this week, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee, and sleepily staring out our window at the misty meadow engulfed in fogginess, I noticed a dove. A dove! He sat in a nearby tree…
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Advent 2025: Week One, Day 7 We frequently pray for God’s Kingdom to come. We even say it over and over in worship. “Come Lord Jesus, Messiah, Come…” as we should. But isn’t it odd that if this is our desire, our call, our hope, why do we struggle with actually living out these words…
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During the season of Advent, many of us find ourselves searching, perhaps; longing, I suppose; or better yet, waiting for the presence of Christ to be revealed in a deeper, more meaningful way. If you find yourself awakened to an insatiable desire to worship the living God in spirit and truth, this Anthology was written…
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     Today, November 30, 2025 is the first day of Advent and we light the candle of Hope. But let me go back to a place in which I was imagining a future that was bright and good and affirming for all people. I hoped that goodness and love would lift us to a new…
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Advent is more than the light of burning luminaries… Advent is here! Tomorrow, Sunday, November 30, 2025 Sunday, the season of Advent begins. I think Advent has to be my favorite time of year. When leaves burnt scarlet flutter earthward and the temperature drops low, I find myself being drawn to candles. Candles fascinate… Remember…
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The Word Became Flesh…     Before anything was, God was. God then decided to fashion companions for Himself. He didn’t want puppets or slaves, so He created His people with a free will. Free will is the power to choose whatever, whenever for good or evil. He also knew that His creation having a fallible…
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At Trafalgar Square in the city of London stands a statue of Lord Nelson. Resting atop a tall pillar, it towers too high for passersby to distinguish his features. For this reason, about forty years ago a new statue – an exact replica of the original – was erected at eye level so that everyone…
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Today we light the Advent candle of peace. In honor of the day, God brought an early, morning visitor. While drinking coffee in front of a roaring fire, sleepily staring out our picture window at the misty mountain engulfed in clouds, a dove lit on the rail inside our porch terrace. A dove! He flew…
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