Advent – Page 4 – Salvaged Faith

Why we are singing Christmas carols this Advent…

Posted on November 30, 2010Leave a comment

Deprecated: preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($subject) of type string is deprecated in /home4/salvagh0/public_html/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/jetpack_vendor/automattic/jetpack-image-cdn/src/class-image-cdn.php on line 682

There have been a number of interesting conversations going on around how we keep Advent and Christmas. Taylor Burton-Edwards has suggested that what we actually experience is something more like Admastime… leaving the “vent” and the “Christ” out of it completely. In the time that I have known what Advent was… and I have to…

Hope… that next year things will be different

Posted on November 28, 2010Leave a comment

Keep awake! Get ready! Prepare yourselves! These are the words that fly at us from the scriptures on this first Sunday of Advent. But get ready for what? Light? Dawn? The son of Man? Yes. Yes. And Yes. Get ready for the hope of the world… Will you pray with me? (adapted from Thom Shuman)…

Lectionary Leanings – All Will Be Well

Posted on December 9, 20082 Comments

December 14Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11, Psalm 126 or Luke 1:47-55, I Thess. 5:16-24 , John 1:6-8, 19-28 A few summers ago in seminary, I participated in a course called “Church in the City.” We traveled around Nashville exploring many diverse neighborhoods and heard many powerful stories of how churches were impacting the communities that they lived…

The Lord is our Salvation A Lenten Study following the RCL Year B readings. This book looks at salvation from a variety of lenses and opens our understanding of the work of Christ.

Three Gifts, One ChristAn Advent or Epiphany Bible Study focusing on the gifts of the magi and what they tell us about the baby born in the manger.

All Earth Is Waiting: Good News for God’s Creation at Advent is a seasonal biblical study focusing on the call of people of faith to respond to a changing climate.