I’d never heard of Advent during my childhood. I knew about waiting for Christmas, but not that the month of…
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Merry Christmas 2015
Merry Christmas to all. My family is spending this week in a myriad of activities. As members of a Lutheran…
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Advent: Elizabeth and Mary
The Advent story includes not one but two surprise pregnancies: that of Zacharias‘ wife Elizabeth and her kinswoman Mary. As…
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Advent: Zacharias and the Angel
The Advent story begins with Zacharias meeting the angel Gabriel–as found in Luke 1. Somehow over the years, I’d missed…
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