Reflection in the Week Before Advent 2020

The Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 40.28-31 “28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. 29 He gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless. 30 Even youths will …

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Reflection for the Feast of Christ the King 2020

Sing for Joy! The Old Testament reading: Psalm 95.1-7 (NASB) “1 O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great …

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Reflection for the Seventeenth Sunday of Trinity 2020

Order and Chaos The God who Turned Chaos into Order The late Professor Fred Hoyle was an astrophysicist and talked much about the complexity of design and pattern in the universe, and the processes that turned chaos into order. With many leading scientists, he concluded that the fine tuning in all the bits that make …

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Reflection for the 1st Sunday of Advent 2020

The Denouement Many of the book of the Old Testament and nearly all the New Testament books tell of the day the Lord will return.  Each and every passage tells of a denouement, when all the events of history, good and bad, will make sense and find their completion; a time when all the confused …

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Reflection in the week of the 2nd Sunday before Advent 2020

Game-changing prayer “18 Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of your great compassion. “19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, …

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