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Advent 2023

Epiphany

Discovering the Divine Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 The new calendar year begins. The liturgical calendar turns to Epiphany, following closely on the

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Christmas Day

God Shows Up Isaiah 52: 7-10 (NRSVUE) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Listen! Your sentinels lift up

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Mid-Week 1

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Advent’s Hope Fuels Our Possibilities Isaiah 41:14-2014 Do not fear, you worm Jacob,    you maggot[a] Israel!I will help you, says the Lord;    your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.15 I will make of you a threshing sledge,    sharp, new, and having teeth;you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,    and you shall make the hills like chaff.16 You

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Second Sunday of Advent

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Mother God’s Porch Awaits Isaiah 40:1-11 Comfort, O comfort my people,says your God.Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,and cry to herthat she has served her term,that her penalty is paid,that she has received from the Lord’s handdouble for all her sins. A voice cries out:‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the

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Third Sunday of Advent

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Red Letters: Ain’t Nothing But the Truth Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to

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Mid-Week 3

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All will be well. To visit the Black Madonna in Montserrat, Catalonia, visitors can take a ski lift into the sky or drive along a winding cliffside road that winds to the foot of the snaggle-tooth mountain that’s unlike any around it, unlike any that most have seen, with magical

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First Sunday after Christmas

10 mins read

Joyful Resistance: The Power of Hope Isaiah 61:10-62:3 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,my whole being shall exult in my God;For God has clothed me with the garments of salvation,the Holy One has covered me with the robe of righteousness,As a bridegroom decks themselves with a garland,and as a

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First Sunday of Advent

10 mins read

Mark 13:24-37 “24 “But in those days, after that time of distress, the sun will be darkened, the moon will lose its brightness, 25 the stars will fall from the sky and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 26 Then they will see the Promised One coming in

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Mid-Week 2

9 mins read

Body Language Luke 1:5-17 What happens to the abandoned and unanswered prayers that we’ve set aside due to God’s silence? What happens when everything you ever hoped for slips away after years of doing everything “right” for God? I think many of us have had this experience at one time

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New Years

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Birthing Liberation in Bethlehem Luke 2:15-21 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” So they went with haste and

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Christmas Day

10 mins read

God Shows Up Isaiah 52: 7-10 (NRSVUE) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices; together they shout for joy, for in plain

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Mid-Week Christmas

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John 6:15-27 Years after the divorce I returned to the dating pool, (which is completely filled with bacteria, and all other debris by the way.) I was very confident in the fact that in the few years prior I did the self work. I went to therapy, I journaled, I

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