Posted on Dec 24, 2024

Poetry from above

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Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Christmas Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Poetry from above Christmas scripture showers us with words as well as music: Mary’s Magnificat, Simeon’s Song, and today there is Zechariah’s priestly, historic, fatherly hymn of praise: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;         for he...

Posted on Dec 22, 2024

Confidence

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Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Confidence Bethlehem-Ephrathah. Too small, but from you shall come forth. What is this confidence that small things so often possess? They are indomitable. They never give up. They win. They are alive in all the right ways. This...

Posted on Dec 21, 2024

Sabbath

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Saturday of the Third Week of Advent,  December 21, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sabbath Hark! My lover! Here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills. The Seventh-Day Adventists have made Saturday their Sunday. For other reasons, members of this church live some of the longest...

Posted on Dec 17, 2024

Genealogy

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Genealogy The book of genealogy of Jesus Christ. It starts with Abraham, this list of men ending with Joseph the husband of Mary, and “of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.” Written perhaps for the Jews, Matthew the...

Posted on Dec 15, 2024

Prepare

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Third Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Prepare In spite of all I’m doing, my being is getting more quiet. Advent’s Holy Spirit is seeping in. The call of Gabriel to Mary and Elizabeth and their magnificent songs with each other, alongside the silence eventually...

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