advent
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Advent 4 • Romans 16:25–27 • December 21, 2014
By Ben Haupt On the final Sunday of Advent, just a few days before the glorious celebration of Christmas, these three verses at the end of the…
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Advent 3 • 1 Thessalonians 5:16–24 • December 14, 2014
By Jeff Gibbs It would be tempting to regard this text, a series of short imperative clauses, as a random series of “inspired one-liners” that exhort…
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Advent 2 • 2 Peter 3:8–14 • December 7, 2014
By Jeff Thormodson The seven verses just preceding our text describe a cultural milieu that seriously doubts the existence of God or a literal judgment day.…
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Advent 1 • 1 Corinthians 1:3–9 • November 30, 2014
By David A. Johnson The church journeys into Advent, anticipating renewal in the vital proclamation of Jesus’s incarnation—embodied grace in the embryo of a woman’s womb. The…
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Lessons and Carols
On the last day before Christmas break, campus chapel had a brief service of Lessons and Carols–a bit of proleptic Christmas joy in the midst…
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Preaching the Voices (from the Edge)
Apparently, David Schmitt has been thinking about life on the edge.