Waiting is a major theme of Scripture. God is always faithful to his people… yet he often seems to keep them waiting.
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Waiting is a major theme of Scripture. God is always faithful to his people… yet he often seems to keep them waiting.
Where does John the Baptist fit among Bing Crosby on the radio, children on a stage, and Charlie Brown memories?
But into the darkness, God sends his light. It’s what he has been doing since the beginning. “Let there be light” were the first words spoken.
Squaring off against the darkness, acknowledging its created separateness from the light that is God in the lives of people, is our posture for this season.
As the light of Christ streams in the window, lighting the room of our lives, let us notice what the light illuminates, yet not spend glorious, God-given energy attempting perfection in what is the Lord’s to complete.
Special days and seasons tend to have a polarizing effect on our emotions and spiritual lives. Do you feel this every year too?
We tend to think about wilderness as a place, but a shack is a visible reminder that wilderness is a force, always pushing back against order and security.
Waiting for a baby strengthens the hope, peace, joy, and love, crafting the manger that holds the baby. This is what Advent offers the church.
Advent is the season of waiting, so they say. Waiting for the Messiah king to come. Waiting for God to show up.
So, the question before us on Dec. 26 (or on any other day) is, “What does Immanuel (God with us) mean today?”
Jesus needs people who are willing to imagine a different future, and step out on faith. Jesus needs dreamers in his life. Always has.
Salvation is a way; along that path the very character of God is sprouting up—love, faithfulness, righteousness, and peace.
The season of Advent culminates in the arrival of God in the form of a very vulnerable Jesus.
The nearness of death fills the room, yet somewhere there is the joy and promise of a new beginning.
Advent is a reminder that we still wait for the Messiah. As a people who live in the “now and not yet” of the kingdom of God, we await the return of Christ.
Many churches feel as if they have been through war. Advent offers the possibility of helping to heal the wounds of war in our midst.
There are a great many people today who are a bit confused by who God is.
Waiting in suspension, our lives hanging in the balance—isn’t this the worst feeling? So how could Advent possibly be a season worth celebrating?
May we remember during Advent the courage it takes to sit and wait. In her waiting, Rosa Parks joined God’s movement of ushering in days more just than before.