Jesus is God’s wide-open Invitation! Advent week 3
Jesus came to do away with the exclusions, the holier-than-thou's, the finger-pointing, the peremptory judgments. Jesus replaced all that with an invitation
I’m dreaming of a “festive, quirky, faith-filled” Christmas…
filtered through the lens of God's spectacular initiative of love and grace in Jesus.
Why we get the Internet we deserve…
This is our time to love with such eloquence that the darkness will melt into the nothingness it really is.
Gloriously and effectively, the gift of light and life!
The dark is simply incompatible with light, and the beautiful, elegant, uncomplicated consequence of introducing light is that we don't then have to do anything about the dark - because it is simply gone.
The Advent of the Birth of Promise – this is the day to come home to church!
Jesus is actually here, the moment is now, and his birth, the miracle of Christmas, is completely accessible and present today, here in December 2018.
“People Get Ready…”
we simply need to remember - every single day - that we belong to Jesus and that we have been given the gift of hope, peace, joy, love, and promise in order to share it with a hungry, broken world.
listen – I can already hear the angel voices…
Think about it... could there be any better way to get our hearts ready for Advent and Christmas other than first filling them with gratitude?
this beautiful gift of creation
creation
plan now if you want to hit the sweet spot this holiday season
we could all use some help to keep on track.
What can we learn from all these veterans and the graves of their comrades?
This is a good day to look at pictures of cemeteries. The stories they hold speak of real people...
