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A Pastoral Prayer for A Cold Sunday in Advent
–www.ronsdigitalmedia.com Let us pray… God, have pity on our world this cold and bitter day. Remember all your creatures who need a little warmth to make it through— squirrels and possum and birds,...
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Virgin Mary
Young Mary is flummoxed by Gabriel’s announcement that she will have a son without human agency. She wonders aloud how it could happen, this unheard-of virginal conception. It’s an obvious and simple...
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Third Advent Sing! [Isaiah 35:1-10]
A young woman had just become the associate pastor of a big suburban church—her first job in ministry—and was asked to give a children’s sermon during the season of Advent. She’d had a hard, busy week...
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Take 2: A Good Word for the World in Advent
Last Advent I posted a Facebook Note called “A Good Word for the World in Advent.” It got a lot of shares. But it did not, alas, change the world, or the church. Oh well. In that piece, I argued that...
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Divinized
“The One who makes rich is made poor, taking on the poverty of flesh, that I may gain the riches of divinity. The One who is full is made empty, devoid a while of glory, that I may share that glory...
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In Common
“O come, Desire of nations, bind in one the hearts of humankind…” —O Come, O Come Emmanuel On a visit to South India, the Archbishop of Canterbury was asked to bless the Hindu kitchen staff of a big...
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Lectio Divina with Mary in Advent
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, UCC Lectio Divina Advent 2007 The Word of Scripture should never stop sounding in your ears and working in you all day long, just like the words of...
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Pastoral Prayer at the End of Advent
Most gracious God, desire of every living thing, you have lighted our way in Advent candle by candle, dispelling our gloom. and now four candles shine. The night is almost over. The Day is almost...
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Commemoration of Saint Nicholas, December 6
“He had to be made like his siblings in every way, so that he might become a merciful high priest… For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses…”—Hebrews 2:17, 4:15...
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“And All The Merry-Hearted Sigh”
From the UCC StillSpeaking Writers Group Advent Devotional 2019 “The earth dries up and withers…The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants;for they have broken the everlasting covenant....
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