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A Christian New Year
This first Sunday in Advent, we explore Jesus’s apocalyptic vision and what it says about the way we work through our present.
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Let’s get apocalyptic! Again!
The apocalyptic talk of the first week of Advent gives us a different opportunity to explore what is going on in the world around us.
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The end of privilege—for Advent 1C
The conflict that Jesus speaks to in his apocalyptic talk is about privilege, about fear of loss, about fear of a more just world.
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Between Proper 29 + Advent 1 (Year C)
The new liturgical year begins where the old one ended: with apocalyptic talk and concern for the future—a most familiar feeling.
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Signs of Hope
Jesus invites us to turn the story around. The signs we see aren’t omens of bad things, but as signs of hope.
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The worries of this life
A devotional for the First Sunday of Advent Collect Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when…
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A New Chance
In Luke 21:25-36, we get a vision of the end which usually trips our fears, but Jesus reminds us that he’ll be with us, standing against the fear. In Advent, we begin with the end, because the end is only the beginning. Advent 1C | Luke 21:25-36 There’s a saying: Begin with the end in…
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Stand Up!
a Sermon for Advent 1C Text: Luke 21:25-36 Perpetual Crisis Each of us has come across someone who thinks the world is going to end soon. We had Harold Camping predict the world would end, twice. He was wrong. Many believe we have 19 more days thanks to one interpretation of the Mayan Calendar. And…