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Endings and Beginnings Advent Meditations and Call to Prayer WEEK THREE:  Subversive God Scripture Focus: “Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are of a feeble heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you.”  (Isaiah 35:3-4)   Prayer for Illumination (pray each day before reading the scriptures we hear in...

Endings and Beginnings Advent Meditations and Call to Prayer WEEK TWO:  (re) Created By God Scripture Focus: “While Jesus was living in the Galilean Hills, John, called “the Baptizer” was preaching in the desert country of Judea. His message was simple and austere, like his desert surroundings: “Change your life. God’s Kingdom is here!”  (Matthew 3:1-2, The MESSAGE) Prayer for the Week  Let us lay before God and one another the...

Dear Church, With the beginning of December we are given a great gift: the call to slow down and wait.  If we are honest with ourselves, slowing down and waiting are not in the vocabulary of most of our lives. I am the first to admit that life rushes on in a frenzied pace and that “I want it now!” Yet, the Church gives us the gift of Advent. What a counter-cultural season we embody as Christians! Slowing down, and waiting. Slowing...