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Light two purple candles Read: 1 Cor. 15:51-56 —– Death is never expected. Sure, you can expect a person to die one day, maybe if they are ill or close to dying, but that actual moment of death can never be predicted. Death is tough. Death is certain. I remember when we buried my grandfather,…
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Light two purple candles Read: Isaiah 40:3-5 A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And…
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Light one purple candle Read: Rev. 21:2; 22:1-3, 5 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God…
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Light one purple candle. Read 2 Corinthians 4:6 and Romans 13:12 “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” (2 Cor. 4:6) “The night is nearly over; the…
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Light one purple candle. Read: John 1:1-9 “The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through Him. He was not the Light, but [he…
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Scattershooting from an Arby’s booth on the first day of December while trying to figure out whether or not I have the strength to drive home… I’m thinking… That time is a fickle thing. Can you believe it’s December? Man, oh man. Twenty-four more days until Christmas. Man, oh man. You blink and another year…
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Light one purple candle. Read: 1 John 1:5-7 and 2:1-6 “This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the…
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Light one purple candle. Read: Isaiah 60:1-3, 19-20; John 5:35-36 “The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your sun will never set again, and your moon will…
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“Advent: Light for the Blind” Light one candle to celebrate Jesus as the Light. Read Isaiah 42:1-9 “I am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you, And I will appoint you as a covenant to the people, As a light to the…
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Advent Week 1: Day 1 Light one candle to celebrate Jesus as the Light. Read: Isaiah 9:1-2 “In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan — The people walking…
J.C. Newton 