Category: church calendar
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We Wait
I’ve seen very few new movies this year but I suspect that even if I’d seen a bunch more I’d still think 12 Years A Slave was the year’s best. Here’s a short reflection provoked by the film that I wrote last week for our church newsletter. “Daddy, are we getting close?” I won’t even try to guess how…
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Christian Seasons Calendar
The Christian Seasons Calendar is now being offered with free shipping. When ours arrived a couple of weeks ago, at the beginning of Advent, we spent a few minutes looking through the beautiful artwork that will mark the church calendar for us this coming year. I love the idea behind this calendar and recommend it…
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“…the question of revolution…”
The priority agenda for Jesus, and for many of us, is not mortality or anxiety, but unrighteousness, injustice. The need is not for consolation or acceptance but for a new order in which men may live together in love. In his time, therefore, as in ours, is the question of revolution, the judgement of God…
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Three Months Until Christmas
We’ve scaled back our Christmas gift giving over the past few years. I’m not sure who in my extended family first had the idea, but at some point we began making donations to favorite charities in lieu of presents. At Christmastime we can count on a few greetings cards letting us know which organization or…
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Watch for the Light
I was pleased to see my favorite book of Advent readings, Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas, on Christianity Today’s recent “Top 5 Books on Advent.” There are plenty of reasons to incorporate this book into your other Advent traditions. First, the book is a collection of writings, organized by days, by…
David W. Swanson 