The 3 Advents
Most of us are familiar with the season of Advent leading up to Christmas Day. A quick stroll through the grocery store proves that Advent calendars are more associated with gobbling up chocolates hidden behind little cardboard windows than they are with Christ. Here’s a picture of my kiddos’ devoured Advent “calendar” (left). But what is the meaning of Advent and how is it intended to work down into our everyday lives?
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If You Came Out of Hiding
If you came out of hiding
What would you find there?
Who would others see?
The real you
Your heart, mind true
Your past through all the distance, too
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How Can Christians Sing At Funerals?!
“How can Christians sing at funerals?!” someone once asked me.
Death is terrible. God designed us to grieve. The tears flow for our deceased loved ones.
But death need not be viewed as tragedy . . .
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Aslan in Afghanistan
Between Darkness and Light.
Wars and chaos increase around the globe. The pandemic marches on with a seemingly unending cycle. Yet Aslan is on the move.
Aslan who?
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Afghanistan and Armchair Quarterbacks
Over this past week, hard sayings like these have been tested in my life. Maybe for you, too?
News sources continue to report the unbelievable disaster unfolding in Afghanistan. Parents tossing their crying toddlers over walls and barbed wire so that our troops can rescue them from what appears to be certain death (link). Young men falling from hundreds of feet in the air as they lose their grip on the wing of a C-17 cargo jet. Women being rapidly forced into hiding . . .
