Advent is usually celebrated in the Christian church in the weeks preceding Christmas stressing four topics: hope, peace, joy, and love represented by four candles. Advent is a term from the Latin word adventus, which means coming, the coming of our Savior. The Advent season started in the 1800s in Germany. Immigrants from…
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Advent Week 3 and 4
As we learned last week, the word “advent” means, “coming” or “arrival”. They were awaiting the arrival of our Savior and King during this Christmas season. We talked about HOPE and PEACE last week and, this week, I’m going to move it up a little, and focus on JOY and…
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Who Are You?
Each one of us was created a unique person with special gifts and talents to fulfill a mission on the earth. I wrote about this topic a few years ago but have gotten some new insights into it. We are Selected, Directed and Protected. Let’s look at these attributes. We…
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Advent Week 4
This week is the fourth and final week of Advent. In previous weeks we have seen that during this Christmas time we should be focusing on Hope, Preparation, Joy and this week LOVE. We have had Word given to us of a Savior and people Hoped for that. He came…
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Action
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves” (James 1:22) During Tuesday night’s revival service, something was said about being active in service to God and it started me thinking. I began getting several action words or verbs that are given to us…