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The Adoption of the Grinch
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
Keywords
- Christmas
- Adoption
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Ephesians 1:5-6, Romans 5:8, Galatians 4:4-7, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Hebrews 13:2, Romans 15:7
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss could be seen as a story of adoption. In the end, the Grinch leaves his cave, takes off his disguise, makes restitution, and opens himself to a new place an...
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An Unlikely Adoption
Author

Daniel Darling
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James 1:27
Joseph exhibited the true spirit of adoption. It is a vivid picture both of God’s adoption of us as His children in Christ, but also the call every believer has in welcoming into our homes and communi...
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Galatians 4:4-7
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Galatians 4:4-7
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you a...
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Frederick Buechner
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The birth of the child into the darkness of the world made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
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Embracing the Call
Author

Timothy Keller
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Matthew 1:23
So what did it mean for Joseph and Mary to accept the Word of the Lord, to say, “We embrace the call to receive this child. We will accept whatever comes with it”? What did it take for them to literal...
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A Season Pregnant with Purpose
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Tsh Oxenreider
Keywords
- Advent
- Childbirth
God takes 40 weeks to create a human life in the incubator of a mother’s body. As the tendons are woven around the joints and the lungs find strength to eventually breathe air, the parents wait with a...
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Asheritah Ciuciu
Keywords
- Advent
- Jesus' Second Coming
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Isaiah 9:6-7, Matthew 28:18-20, Revelation 1:7
Advent means “coming,” from the Latin word adventus, and demarks a season of expectantly preparing to celebrate the first coming of Jesus, while eagerly awaiting His second coming to establish His kin...
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Stanley Hauerwas
Keywords
- Advent
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Psalm 40:1, James 5:7-8, James 5:7-8
Advent is patience. It's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
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Clement of Alexandria
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Hebrews 11:8-10, Luke 1:38, Matthew 21:22 , Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 1:6, James 1:2-4
Faith is a voluntary anticipation.
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Advent is God Coming to Us
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Austin Farrar
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Advent is a coming, not our coming to God, but his to us. We cannot come to God, he is beyond our reach; but he can come to us, for we are not beneath his mercy. Even in another life, as St. John sees...
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Accepting the Call
Author

Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Acts 1:1-11
ONE: Jesus said, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; ALL: Come, Holy Spirit, Come ONE: Jesus said, “and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria...
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Author

Henri J. M. Nouwen
Keywords
- Advent
- Waiting on God
Scripture

Psalm 25:5, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:25-26, James 1:2-4, Matthew 11:15, Romans 5:3-5, Isaiah 30:18
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
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Adapted from Isaiah 9:2 (NIV)
Author

Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
Keywords
- Advent
Scripture

Isaiah 9:2
Leader: "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; People: on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned." Leader: The Light that is the Word of God, God ...
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Adapted from Isaiah 9:2-4
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Isaiah 9:2-4
Leader: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. All: The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death. Leader: You have multiplied the nation. You have...
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In the midst of frenzied shopping and
Author

Ann Siddall
Keywords
- Advent
In the midst of frenzied shopping and end-of-year weariness, we spread out a purple cloth,(a purple cloth is spread over the communion table) read again the ancient stories,(a Bible is placed on th...
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How God Enters the World Matters
Author

Kelley Nikondeha
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Matthew 1:22-23, Isaiah 7:14, Luke 1:46-55, Luke 2:1-7, Micah 5:2, Luke 2:8-11, Isaiah 9:6-7
When we turn toward Advent, the name on our lips is Emmanuel, God with us . So much in Christian faith relies on what the faithful actually mean when we say that name. Western Christianity has fo...
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Author

Mother Teresa
Keywords
- The Incarnation
- Christmas
Scripture

John 1:14, Luke 2:10-11, Matthew 4:17, Luke 4:18-21, Matthew 28:18, Matthew 17:1-9, Luke 24:13-35
As soon as we take the enfleshment of God, the incarnation which, for Christians, is represented by the person of Jesus Christ, then we start taking things seriously.
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Adapted from John 8:12
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Austin D. Hill
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John 8:12
Leader: Jesus says to you and to me: “I am the light of the world. People: Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, But will have the light of life.” Leader: Let us fix our eyes upon the ...
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R. C. Sproul
Keywords
- Advent
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Luke 2:10-14, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Matthew 1:18-25
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His adve...
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Eternal God, we praise You for stepping
Author

Austin D. Hill
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2 Corinthians 5:17, Colossians 3:10, Ephesians 4:22-24, Romans 12:2, 1 Peter 2:21
Eternal God, we praise You for stepping out of eternity to enter this world through Your Son, Jesus. In so doing, You gave us the perfect example for Christian life. You gave of Yourself so that other...
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Baptism and Epiphany
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Before child baptism was common in the early Church, Epiphany was a special holy day for baptism. This is because Epiphany is traditionally associated with the baptism of Jesus by John in the Jordan. ...
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The Great Exchange
Author

John Chrysostom
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Philippians 2:6-8, 2 Corinthians 8:9, John 1:14, Luke 2:7, Isaiah 9:6, John 3:16
The incarnation has often been described as “The Great Exchange,” whereupon God took on human form so that we might participate in God's divine life (through the Holy Spirit). In a sermon on the n...
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Loving God ~ Father, Son and Holy (A)
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Richard Herman
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Loving God ~ Father, Son and Holy Spirit: We are a people who are waiting: waiting to celebrate Messiah’s birth; waiting to see what this day – and every day – holds as Your blessings for us; and wait...
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O God, who looked on us when we had
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Ambrose of Milan
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Romans 8:38-39, Matthew 3:13-17, Luke 1:26-38, Titus 2:13-14, Galatians 4:4-5, John 1:14
O God, who looked on us when we had fallen down into death, and resolved to redeem us by the Advent of your only begotten Son; grant, we beg you, that those who confess his glorious Incarnation may al...
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Yearning, Three Advents of Christ
Author

Tish Harrison Warren
Keywords
- Advent
Scripture

Romans 6:3-4, Titus 3:5, John 6:32
Beginning With Waiting As the calendar year winds down, as the days darken and grow short, as Christmas songs spill from crowded stores and children set about making wish lists for Santa, the church’...
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Adapted from John Francis Wade’s "O Come, Let Us Adore Him"
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Luke 2:10-11, Psalm 100:2, Luke 2:8-20, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1-2, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:15-16, Revelation 19:16, Luke 2:8-20, Psalm 95:6, Philippians 2:10-11, Luke 2:25-38, John 1:14, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 2:11
Leader: O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, People: O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Leader: Come and behold Him, Born the King of Angels! O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us ador...
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The Three Advents
Author

Fleming Rutledge
Keywords
- Advent
It would generally be agreed that Advent celebrates three “advents.” This ‘version, from early Lutheran preaching, will serve as well as any: Adventus redemptionis: the incarnate Christ “born of the ...
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Adapted from John 1:10-11; Isaiah 52:7-10
Author

Scott B. Bullock
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John 1:10-11, Isaiah 52:7-10
Father in Heaven, we confess that we never knew you had come down. We confess that we were in the dark as to your light among us. Though the world was created through your Word, we could not grasp the...
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Author

Norman Cousins
Keywords
- Busyness
- Climbing the Ladder of Success
It is a sprinting, squirting, shoving age.
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Lord, you came among us, not in a way
Author

William H. Willimon
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Lord, you came among us, not in a way we expected, but as a baby. We had great difficulty seeing you in so small a form, so vulnerable an incarnation. Lord, you came to us where we least expected. Yo...