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27 mins read|12/10/23The Magnificat invites us to enter into, consider, and embrace the worldview of a teenaged Jewish girl and her geriatric aunt: The one bearing the prophet Elijah which was to come and the other carrying within her womb the God whom she and her nation worshipped and feared.
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23 mins read|08/07/23God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
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23 mins read|12/30/22There is an association, almost a one-to-one correspondence, between the gift and the nature of the giving.
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14 mins read|12/24/22Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
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19 mins read|12/29/21Love turns out to be not simply a thing or action, but a characteristic of God himself.
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9 mins read|12/17/21The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.
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6 mins read|12/01/21There is no other transitionary event in human history that warrants three full months of focused attention and persistent acknowledgment than the incarnation of the Son of God.
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21 mins read|12/23/20The incarnate Son of God makes ordinary events extraordinary by making them events that factor into our salvation.
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14 mins read|05/21/20In the middle of the spring, on a run-of-the-mill Thursday, the ascension interrupts the mundane to herald the extraordinary: Christ is in charge and is present on earth as he is in heaven, guiding history for the sake of his church.
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13 mins read|03/30/20Look to the crucifix. There you see God as God is, in Himself. You see God in action for you.
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19 mins read|12/23/19Christ busies Himself with accomplishing your salvation; race, age, sex, ability or even intelligence notwithstanding.
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18 mins read|12/16/19Preach the full council of God even as it focuses on the Virgin Mary who was the virginal handmaid of the Lord and through whom Immanuel, “God with us,” happens.
