Posts Tagged ‘Advent’
Joyful Expectation | December 13
Recently, my life has been filled with physical transition. The seminary schedule is one year of classes, a summer doing chaplaincy, another year of classes, a full year of interning…
Read MoreCaroling & Cabernet
Sing a Joyful Song Join Good Shepherd friends on Sunday, December 16th at Toot and Kate’s Wine Bar at 109 S Main St in Verona for an evening of sharing…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 11
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge God, who will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 When I…
Read MoreRepent and Follow
So, who cares? Who cares about Tyberius, Pilate, Herod, Phillip and Lysanius, Annas and Caiaphis? Ok, granted…we Christians, who know Jesus’ story, will care about Pilate and Herod a bit…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 10
At times in my life I have come to a point, a liminal area, where I have been uncertain of how to proceed. Liminal is derived from the Latin word…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 9
In my college days, the pastor of my church had graduate degrees in both Divinity and Engineering. I thought he was a real nerd. I went on to receive graduate…
Read MoreAdvent by Candlelight 2018
The Good Shepherd Women’s Ministry would like to invite all women of the church and their friends, as well as middle and high school girls, to join us for an…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 8
I was so excited for this new chapter in my life – getting married, starting a new job, and moving to a new city. My parents enjoyed 50+ years of…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 7
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8 Everything had changed in a moment. It was three years ago and we were planning a big vacation to…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 6
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end”…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 5
God… when pursued is the White Tail (tale) flash in the brush… the sound of something leaving quickly to avoid… not detection, but ultimate domestication. Sometimes, …
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 4
Be still and know that I am God Psalm 46:10 (NIV) Stop and realize that I am God Psalm 46:10 (Beck’s) “Praise Him in the hallway”“God doesn’t close doors without…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 3
He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it…
Read MoreLooking for the Fig Tree
Many messages are produced every day about the end of times. And those end times always seem to be just around the corner, don’t they? Read your morning newspaper, watch…
Read MoreJoyful Expectation | December 2
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in…
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