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Advent, Advent Conspiracy, Christmas, consumerism, giving
I only learned of this grassroots movement with more than 1,000 churches in 17 countries participating just last week in an article in the current issue of Randy Alcorn’s Eternal Perspectives magazine. Check out this brief video for something worth grappling with this and every Advent season.
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Advent, Christmas, incarnation, worship
Last Sunday, November 27, marked the beginning of Advent, traditionally the beginning of the church calendar year. The word advent comes from the Latin adventus meaning coming. Advent focuses our worship for the four weeks which precede Christmas on the significance of Christ’s incarnation. Christians began to organize worship around various seasons of the year [...]
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Christmas, Christology, giving, incarnation, riches, spiritual blessings, stewardship, substitutionary atonement
Last night’s Christmas Eve message from 2 Cor. 8:1-9 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here is the quote from Octavius Winslow (1808-1878) with which I closed the sermon: And shall we not pause and bestow a thought of admiration and gratitude upon Him, who was constrained to stand [...]
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Christmas, Joy, stress
It occurred to me that many people including Christians can feel quite stressed, even depressed, around Christmas. Sometimes financial pressure, hectic and difficult traveling, strained relationships, and unexpected problems may contribute. We’re in good company! Seems to me there’s a good chance Mary and Joseph experienced financial pressure, inconvenient obligations and traveling hassles, and unexpected [...]
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Advent, Christmas, worship
Tomorrow, November 28, marks the beginning of Advent, traditionally the beginning of the church calendar year. The word advent comes from the Latin adventus meaning coming. Advent focuses our worship for the four weeks which precede Christmas on the significance of Christ’s incarnation. Christians began to organize worship around various seasons of the year as [...]
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Easter, waiting
I love books. Just one visit to my house will confirm that fact. I love re-reading and re-living a beloved novel. I love the pages which have become wrinkled with interest and vigorous page-turning. I love the crease in the spine which allows the book to lay flat, opened to my favorite scene. I love [...]
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friendship, Good Friday, salvation
Today’s entry, April 3, in Octavius Winslow’s Morning Thoughts, leads with Proverbs 18:24. There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Making application to Jesus, the friend of sinners, Winslow writes: There is no sympathy, no love, no gentleness, no tenderness, no patience, like Christ’s! Oh how sweet, how encouraging, to know that [...]
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equipping, worship
There are two things coming up in the near future that I want to highlight in this post. The first concerns Good Friday, April 2. Orlando Grace will participate with Faith Baptist Church, 500 N. Bumby, in Orlando, in a joint Good Friday worship observance from noon to 1:00 PM. Pastor Jack of Faith will [...]
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Advent, Christmas, glory, second coming
Last night in my Christmas Eve message on John 8:12 I spoke of Jesus as “being so full of Himself.” I continue to imagine what it would have been like to have heard Him say sentences like “I am the light of the world.” The Jews listening to His words beneath the menorahs in the [...]
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Advent, creation, incarnation, revelation, salvation
Were he to have had access to modern technology and therefore able to view the likes of Saturn in this photo would John Calvin have referred to it, though stunningly bright and glorious, still vain in some respect? Absolutely. Creation, though brilliantly putting the glory of God on display, especially in the far reaches of [...]
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