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Title: Exactly what you want
Date: December 28, 2008r 28, 2008English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVIzbrano poglavje ne obstaja!WP-Bible plugin
Texts: Isaiah 61:10-62:3Isaiah 61:10-62:3English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVCelebrate and Shout

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Barth has a wonderful and short book on the Apostle’s Creed: Dogmatics in Outline (1947). Chapter 14 offers some good reading for Advent. The chapter is entitled, “The Mystery and the Miracle of Christmas.” The passage below is an excerpt from the end of the chapter. Granted, Barth is a sexist. That’s nothing new. Yet, [...]

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The good people over at The Mennonite printed a short Advent meditation I wrote on Mary. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Mary shows us how to extend hospitality to God, which is simply what it means to be a disciple. She made room for God’s life within her own. She opened her life, her very [...]

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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been racking my brain, reading, and reaching for some thoughts on how advent might act as a counterweight to the flood of consumerism Christmas brings.  Most of what I was coming up with was abstract and bleh.  Yesterday, it hit me like a water baloon: God already showed [...]

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