This devotional was adapted from a service that Mari wrote in 2023, created to honor the thrum of sorrow and loss that undulates beneath the largely cheerful Christmas songs sung throughout November and December.
“Why Should I Get Involved?”
DeStefano points out this amazingly simple yet propfound truth: When we help someone we reduce the amount of suffering in the world, we become part of the process of God working things together for good.
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“Songs for a Savior” Advent Devotions
Advent comes right after Thanksgiving! This new Advent Devotional will begin the end of next week, and is written in an "evergreen" way, so that it may be reread each Christmas season.
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A Virgin Shall Bear a Son
Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son and shall name him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14 (NRSV) Isaiah was prophet to King Ahaz, among others, and it was to this young king Isaiah delivered the prophecy of a young woman with child. Isaiah's prediction held near-term significance for the beleaguered Judean ruler. … Continue reading A Virgin Shall Bear a Son
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Advent Meditation: Alpha and Omega
Through her the protevangelium had been fulfilled this night, the first gospel oracle, spoken in God’s own voice, “the seed of the woman” who would one day have victory over evil itself.
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Advent Meditation: Only Begotten
the wonderful mystery of Your infinite and eternal Being becoming the only-begotten Son of God overwhelms us with awe. To You belongs all glory, honor, wisdom, power, and praise.
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Advent Meditation: Prince of Peace
The word “blessed” meant “divine joy and perfect happiness.”
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Advent Meditation: Lord of Lords
Mary received Gabriel’s message with humble, willing faith in God, and indeed, she was among the first to see God in the flesh.
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Mary’s Magnificat and Jesus’s Beatitudes
How often must Mary have sung her Magnificat to her tiny son, as His lullaby? How often did she remind Him of Who His Father truly was, and Who He truly was? Now as a grown man, the Lord fulfilled the destiny His mother had lovingly and faithfully raised Him up in.
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December Advent Devotional
As you and I meditate on these words, let us think about the names all heaven and earth gave to this tiny, vulnerable baby, Who is God the Son.
