Category: Advent
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Advent 2020 – Day 4
Luke 1:1-4 ‘Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eye-witnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also…
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Advent 2020 – Day 3
Matthew 1: 2-16 (an extra dimension?) Perez whose mother was Tamar … Boaz whose mother was Rahab … Obed whose mother was Ruth … Solomon whose mother had been Uriah’s wife. I imagine Matthew pondering his list of 42 names, not only discerning the big picture, the pattern of God’s unfolding plan, but dwelling on…
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Advent 2020 – Day 2
Matthew 1: 2-16 (summarised) Abraham – Isaac – Jacob – Judah – Perez – Hezron – Ram – Amminadab – Nahshon – Salmon – Boaz – Obed – Jesse – King David – Solomon – Rehoboam – Abijah – Asa – Jehoshaphat – Jehoram – Uzziah – Jotham – Ahaz – Hezekiah – Manesseh –…
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Advent 2020 – Day 1
Matthew 1: 1 This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham: Matthew 1:16-18 … and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David,…
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Advent 2020 – introduction
The season of Advent begins tomorrow, a season of preparation for Christmas when we will celebrate the birth of Jesus. As I have done for the last two years, I will be writing a series of daily “thoughts” for the season, which I will publish via this blog. For anyone who followed this series last…
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Dec 24th
Luke 2: 8-20 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good…
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Dec 23rd
Luke 2:6-7 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. All is set. All is in place. By force of circumstances…
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Dec 22nd
Luke 2:1-5 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in…
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Dec 21st
DETOUR CONTINUED Revelation 22:7,12,17,20 “Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book.” “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.”‘The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears…
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Dec 20th
DETOUR Revelation 1:7 “Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.” Advent is a time to look forwards as well as back. According to the headings in my…
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