Advent

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December 2, 2024
Advent: Watching and Waiting for God

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December 19, 2023
Advent: Expressible Joy

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December 15, 2023
Advent: The Poet of Peace

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December 14, 2023
Advent: Hope is a Mountain

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December 1, 2023
Advent: Watching and Waiting For God

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November 29, 2023
Advent: The Nexus of Humility, Justice, and Joy

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November 29, 2022
At the Watchtower: An Advent Meditation

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December 23, 2020
An Advent Reflection: Our Scapegoats Revealed

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December 18, 2020
An Advent Invitation: Beyond Sentimental Praise

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December 11, 2020
An Advent Invitation: Come, Desire of Nations, Come

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December 4, 2020
An Advent Invitation: Leaning into Words of Prophecy

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December 2, 2020
Advent for “the Rest of Us”: Avoiding Exclusion, Welcoming Wonder

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November 27, 2020
An Advent Invitation: Recalling God’s Promises with Every Breath

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December 20, 2019
A Cross at the Heart of Advent

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December 18, 2019
Tremble this Advent

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November 30, 2018
This Advent, Let the Gospel of Luke Reawaken Your Hope

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November 29, 2018
Waiting in the Margins: A Daily Advent Resource
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November 23, 2018
Advent: the Once & Future Coming of Jesus Christ by Fleming Rutledge [Book Review]

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December 7, 2017
Who We Keep Leaving Out of Advent

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November 30, 2017
Advent: Four Elements of “Wait Training”
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May 15, 2017
Back and Forth From Earth to Heaven: Two Moms’ Daily Adventures in the Resurrected Life

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December 12, 2016
How Advent Teaches the Art of Mixed Emotions

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November 25, 2016
Find Restoration in Advent with this Devotional Guide

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December 23, 2015
An Apocalyptic Advent

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December 9, 2015
Advent, Herod, and Liberty University

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December 3, 2015
The Posture of Childlikeness: An Interactive Advent Art Reflection

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December 1, 2015
Militant Peace: An Advent Appeal

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December 18, 2014
#ChurchTrending: Reclaiming Eve at Advent

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December 12, 2014
#Churchtrending: A Santa Clausified Advent

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December 5, 2014
#ChurchTrending: When Advent Becomes a Trap
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December 3, 2014
#ChurchTrending: The Unholy Advent Wreath
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November 26, 2014
Let #Ferguson Prepare Us For This Season of Advent
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December 27, 2013
After Advent, Before Lent: Life in “Ordinary” Moments
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December 19, 2013
Advent & Shepherd Leadership, Part Two
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December 17, 2013
Advent & Shepherd Leadership, Part 1
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December 3, 2013
Recapturing Advent (w/ Stanley Hauerwas)
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December 3, 2013
Practices and Resources for Advent 2013
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December 12, 2012
When Nihilism Visits the Shopping Mall: A Brief Word to Missional Communities During Advent

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February 19, 2025
Evangelism: The Good News Gone Badly

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November 28, 2024
The Reign of Christ the King (A Sermon Feast)

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February 14, 2024
To Keep A True Lent

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January 22, 2024
Why Stay 2025

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January 16, 2024
Politic, Not Party

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December 22, 2023
Rachel Weeping for Her Children

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December 21, 2023
Blue Christmas: Is it Really the Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

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October 31, 2023
Empty Nest: How a Ritual Helps Us Process the Losses and Gains of Our Kids Leaving Home

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July 26, 2023
Surprised by God at Tables: On The Eucharist as Mission (Pt. 1)

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July 13, 2023
God Finds Us In Nature: A Place of Encounter (Pt. 1)

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June 22, 2023
How to Celebrate a Meaningful Name Change: ‘Consecrated Woman in Ministry’ to Reverend

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March 7, 2023
Jesus Subverts Our Messianic Expectations

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December 16, 2022
A Disruptive Incarnation: Reflecting on the Cost of Immanuel Drawing Near

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November 22, 2022
Disrupted Giving: An Uncomfortable Opportunity (Part 1: The Origins of Giving)

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November 17, 2022
We’re All Pioneers Now: Skills for the Unchartered Landscape of the 21st-Century Church

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October 18, 2022
What’s the Matter with Church Branding? (Captive to Capitalism, Part 3)

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May 11, 2022
Erasing Mary, The Mother of God

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July 7, 2021
Understanding the Whole Good News of the Gospel

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April 23, 2021
My Spiritual Formation in the Wake of COVID

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April 8, 2021
Justin Heap

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February 26, 2021
Made for a Place Called Good

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June 1, 2020