Showing posts with label advent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advent. Show all posts

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Church and State on Jan. 20: An Advent Reflection
[via ThinkChristian.NET]

For You...A Savior

You’ve been given a great gift in your honest struggle and confession of being a loser. You’re on the way. You’re on the road. Don’t whine about it. Don’t make the mistake of seeing the broad evangelical Disneyland as your destination. You’re at that point where George Bailey stood on the bridge. You can despair….and jump. Or you can know that God has sent his hope, love and good news to you in a barn, where shepherds worship in tearful silence; where a man receives a gift he never created; where a virgin says yes even to the unthinkable that grace can do the impossible.

Go there, Ted. Find that place. Go as a struggler, a loser, one with nothing. Go and know that this, and all it means and will ever mean, is for you. For you….a savior. A savior of strugglers, losers and worse.

your friend and fellow loser,

Michael {full post}
[via internetmonk.com, HT: My End of the Stick!]

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Wonder and Space...

Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008
[via The Big Picture, HT: Bene Diction Blogs On]

How Long?

How long, now, have we been waiting for you to come back to us?

Almost eighty generations. Almost two thousand years.

How long, now, have we been waiting for you to come back to us?

Countless wars. Countless plagues and famines and floods.

How long, now, have we been waiting for you to come back to us?

We are bleeding.

How long?

We are suffering.

How long?

We are dying.

How long?

Our hearts are breaking.

How long?

Our minds are breaking.

How long?

Our bodies are breaking.

We are still waiting.{continue...}
[via On Journeying with those in Exile]

Monday, December 17, 2007

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Sunday, December 02, 2007