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2022/12/18

The Fourth Sunday of Advent

If it seems fitting to begin Advent with Hope, it seems equally fitting to finish Advent with Love. This is the Sunday of Love. One of the things I can forget about, if I’m not careful, is that while God acts in loving ways, we don’t have a God who is occasionally loving, we have […]

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2021/12/19

Love is why love wins

Love is the theme of the fourth Sunday of Advent. As I was thinking about what to say this week, a book title kept coming back to me, namely, Love Wins by Rob Bell. I’m not here to spend much time on Bell’s thesis but rather as I was drawn to why God would want […]

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2020/12/20

Love. It is still all you need.

The Fourth Sunday of Advent is today and is the Sunday of Love. What a great Sunday to end with. We begin with hope and end with love, sounds like a perfect relationship. “Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent. One waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other—things that […]

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