Watch Listen Download/Subscribe Download Audio Download Video Low Res Video Watch on YouTube Program Transcript + Discussion Watch video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbpU1YTpcOk Program Transcript Christmas In the quiet of this holy night, we gather to celebrate the coming of the Light of the World, a beacon of hope in our waiting hearts. Isaiah 9:2-7 foretells … Continue reading "Sermon for December 24 /25, 2023 — Nativity of the Lord" Read the article
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Watch Listen Download/Subscribe Download Audio Download Video Low Res Video Watch on YouTube Program Transcript + Discussion Watch video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xHGv8Fygiw Program Transcript Advent – Love In this sacred season of Advent, as we gather in hushed reverence, we are reminded that love is at the heart of it all. Psalm 89:1-4 calls us … Continue reading "Sermon for December 24, 2023 – Fourth Sunday of Advent" Read the article
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Watch Listen Download/Subscribe Download Audio Download Video Low Res Video Watch on YouTube Program Transcript + Discussion Watch video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mU8REc5y4 Program Transcript Advent – Joy In the tender embrace of Advent, we find ourselves on the cusp of a wondrous journey. Like the first light of dawn, joy begins to illuminate our hearts. … Continue reading "Sermon for December 17, 2023 – Third Sunday of Advent" Read the article
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Watch Listen Download/Subscribe Download Audio Download Video Low Res Video Watch on YouTube Program Transcript + Discussion Watch video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFwRs26P0MA Program Transcript Advent – Peace In the quiet moments of Advent, we find ourselves in the wilderness, where the hustle and bustle of the world begins to fade away. It’s here, in this … Continue reading "Sermon for December 10, 2023 – Second Sunday of Advent" Read the article
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Watch Listen Download/Subscribe Download Audio Download Video Low Res Video Watch on YouTube Program Transcript + Discussion Watch video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFU7dJ3Ij2A Program Transcript Advent – Hope In a world filled with uncertainty and darkness, we find ourselves journeying through the season of Advent. This sacred time of waiting and anticipation reminds us of the … Continue reading "Sermon for December 3, 2023 – First Sunday of Advent" Read the article
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Advent is a season of expectation. But not the expectation of some far-off event, more like the expectation of a woman with child. It is the awareness of present life, and the knowledge that one day that life will burst forth into the world. In this sacred season of the worship calendar, we find ourselves … Continue reading "Church Hack: Advent" Read the article
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A children’s Advent story you may want to read at church. By Bill Winn, Pastor, Grace Communion Hanover Once upon a time—because all good stories begin this way—there was a little girl who loved her mother and father dearly. Her father was a blacksmith, and her mother sewed breeches and shirts for the sailors who … Continue reading "Celia’s Advent Longing" Read the article
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Spiritual formation parallels between the active waiting and anticipation of pregnancy and the season of Advent. By Afrika Afeni Mills, Faith Avenue Champion, GCI Charlotte My first pregnancy was not like Mary’s pregnancy with Jesus. There’s the obvious difference—while my husband and I experienced the pregnancy as a miracle, our child was not immaculately conceived. … Continue reading "Until Christ is Formed in You" Read the article
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Advent is part of the scaffolding that enables us to climb up and around the beauty of the Gospel message. By Bill Winn. Pastor, Grace Communion Hanover Once in my early twenties, I was driving a large dump truck early in the morning on roads covered with a proper northwest frozen snowy slush! The ruts … Continue reading "ADVENTures in the Christian Calendar" Read the article
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Preparing for the birth of a child leads to a time of great celebration. I’ll never forget preparing our home for our first child. We didn’t have the internet to tell us what we’d need to prepare for our first child. Today you can go to several websites that give you lists to help you … Continue reading "The Greatest Celebration" Read the article
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