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Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series this Sunday called The Advent Way. During this series we will invite reflection on how the Advent way prepares us for the beauty and mystery of Christmas. Worship will be rooted in the book of Isaiah and Matthew’s Gospel. Outline of The Advent Way December 1: Walk. Isaiah 2.1-5. December 8: Turn. Matthew 3.1-3. December 15: Imagine. Isaiah 35.1-10. December 22: Love. Matthew 1.18-25. Christmas Eve: 5:00pm & 11:00pm Warren Carter writes in Matthew and the margins: A Sociopolitical and…
Advent comes.
The Advent of God is upon us, the season of preparing for the mystery of Christmas when God comes into our world. We invite you on to journey the way of Advent with us as we pause to: Walk, turn, imagine, love. We begin tomorrow.
Walk
In a blog post commentary on our Isaiah text this week, Anathea Portier-Young writes: Light is life (Job 17:1; 18:5, 18; 33:28, 30), goodness (Job 30:26), joy (Psalm 97:11), revelation and truth (Job 12:22; Psalm 43:3). It is linked with justice and righteousness (Isaiah 59:9) and the promise of salvation (Isaiah 49:6) and healing (Isaiah 58:8). Light is also what makes it possible to follow a path…What a simple summons then, to walk in the Lord’s light, in divine glory,…
Toward Sunday
We begin a four-week worship series this Sunday called The Advent Way. Our worship series will invite reflection on how the Advent way prepares us for the beauty and mystery of Christmas. Worship will be rooted in the book of Isaiah and Matthew’s Gospel. A note on Advent from A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God by Norman Shawchuck & Rueben P Job: Advent marks the beginning of the church year and lays before us the pathway of…