• Advent 2.2: The Hope of Glory

    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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  • Advent, Week Two: Jesus, our Hope

    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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  • Advent 1:7, The Enduring Light

    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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  • Advent 1:6, Children of Light

    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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