Advent is a Season of waiting. Christians begin a new wait (not a wake, though we should come awake) each year, as the Christian Calendar commences it's own season passings.
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Followers of Jesus have the potential of - through prayer, pulling into the created world and order of things, an even greater Real - of the fullness of Life in what Jesus called God's Kingdom.
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I have visited various places in the world, and accumulated thousands of photographs and movies.
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The Christian heresies spring from the fact that man does not take seriously the known ground of divine immanence in Jesus Christ, so that from its revelation, instead of apprehending Jesus Christ
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George F. MacLeod, founder of the Iona Community, wrote many wonderful prayers.
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Christians believe that Jesus Christ was and is the fullest expression that we can know of God. If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus.
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In his book Why We Must Ignore Jesus, John Alexander writes that "Christians spend a lot of time and energy explaining why Jesus couldn't possibly have meant what He said.
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Activate the movie (right) as you read the text.
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We are to grow up into Christlikeness, the goal of being new creatures in Jesus. But what does that mean in terms of the New Creation.
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What if we just manage to make our church more like the Pharisees than like Jesus?!
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What happens when we meet together, and with our Lord, at the feast of Communion?
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The Life that Jesus called abundant - what is it and how do you get into it?
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Excerpts from John 10 - Jesus, the Good Shepherd.
"I am come that you might have Life, and have it more abundantly."
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These are some reflections on the Church today. Is the local church as we know it what Jesus had in mind?
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The Seed of the Woman - Genesis 3:14f - Garden of Eden - So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the
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'Your Word have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You,' wrote the Psalmist.
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When Thomas beheld and touched the wounds of Jesus, he cried: ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus responded, in effect.
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Praise God from Whom all blessings flowPraise Him, all creatures here belowPraise Him above, you heavenly hosts,Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
-Amen
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An ancient chant of Eucharistic devotion based on words from the book of the Old Testament prophet, Habakkuk (2:20) - "Let all the earth keep silence before him."
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The Pieta, The Vatican, Rome, Italy
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet?
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How is this new clan and community - called the Church, to be part of God's answer, in Christ? Here's the response of St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesian Church:
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What was it Jesus really came to do, to accomplish as one thinks of the individual needs of families, individuals, communities and nations?
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The lyrics for Hurt a song written by Trent Reznor and first released on Nine Inch Nails in 1994, come with all of the hurt, pain, and crying-out-loud hone
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In the New Testament record of St. John (John 21: 1-14) we find Jesus appearing once more to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias.
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The Good News or The Gospel or Godspel is what changes folk, what can change the world. It guides, shelters, helps and keeps us.
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Pilgrims walk together, or sometimes alone, sometimes pressed forward even pushed by those who are eager to get ahead. We all start on the road in the same way.
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When there are no answers, only mystery, and when the road seems closed and all bridges back and forward appear to be washed away, one turns to the Friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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