Advent Season 2019, Year A – Third Sunday of Advent: The Old Testament Passage – Allowing Joy to Come
“The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the...
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“The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the...
Read More“Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king’s son.May he judge your...
Read More“In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent,...
Read More“Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.”
Read More“A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.The...
Read More“I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”Our feet are...
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Read More“But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but...
Read More“When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from...
Read More“Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For...
Read MoreTitles and timings get tricky around this time of year. As I said very recently (just in the last...
Read MoreThomann Klymer (also Clymer, Klemmer, Clemmer) was born in 1554 in Montbéliard, France, 37 years after the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, and 29 years after the Anabaptist beginnings in 1525. At some point he became a...
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