January 2012
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Jan 25th
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“Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant...”
– Jeremiah 31.31-34 Praise Jesus for the new covenant: his gospel. In this gospel, the Spirit of God is put in us and the righteousness of Christ works within us. The Father himself wants all of us to know him as his children, not just clergy or superstars. We are fully forgiven, fully redeemed,...
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Jan 19th
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“And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top”
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 6th
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WatchWatch
The Head and the Heart’s “Lost In My Mind” This is the kind of Winter I want to have. 
Jan 2nd
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“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his...”
– Mark Twain
Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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“Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels...”
– Martin Luther
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 31st
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“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The...”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
Dec 31st
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“My heart melts at the love of Jesus, my brother, bone of my bone, flesh of my...”
– “The Valley of Vision”
Dec 30th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity...”
– Collect of the Incarnation from the Book of Common Prayer May we join Jesus in this Christmas Mission.
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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The Christmas Story
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the...
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son...”
– Collect for the Fourth Sunday of Advent from the Book of Common Prayer
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“It was this which was the whole aim of Jesus when, after having made atonement...”
– Andrew Murray
Dec 12th
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“Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we...”
– Collect for the Third Sunday of Advent from the Book of Common Prayer
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do...”
– Martin Luther, “Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent; Matthew 11.2-10”, 1522 Faith humbles us to not attempt saving ourselves, trusting solely in Christ, just as it also motivates us to share this love that we have been freely given. As Luther says, “We stumble in two...
Dec 6th
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