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Advent Reading Group
A parishioner asked me for suggestions for Advent reading, and we hatched the plan to read St Augustine’s Confessions together. I’ll post a schedule soon, and plan to post regular highlights and...
View ArticleOn the cusp of Advent
As we prepare to enter Advent in just a few hours (as the sun sets this Saturday before Advent Sunday), here are a few posts from yesteryear on the season: Tis what season? Watch! Betjeman The...
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Ad te levavi (Advent 1): Christ the King
When sin entered the world, so did death. And every child born of woman breaths the poisoned air of our world. And when those children grow older, all, without exception, act according to a selfish...
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Advent Conspiracy 2011 Video
Love it, love it, love it: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IN0W3gjnNE Thanks to Mollie for alerting me to this.
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Slapping Heretics and Saving Children: Nicholas of Myra, Bishop and Confessor
Our 2011 Advent theme at Immanuel is “The Saints of Advent,” considering Andrew, Nicholas, Lucia, and Thomas. Below is tonight’s sermon for St. Nicholas (observed). I used the readings from the Daily...
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Sermo Dei: Jesse Tree Advent Choral Vespers
Where did you come from? Where are you going? These two questions get at your identity and purpose. Where did you come from? really means, Who are your parents, and where did they grow up? We can keep...
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Sermo Dei: Advent 1 Midweek
Beloved, tonight we hear the glorious prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah 2:1-5) regarding our future and our world’s future. Isaiah speaks about the “end of days.” Our Bible renders it “in the latter days”;...
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Creator of the Stars of Night
Immanuel Lutheran School holds an annual Choral Advent service. This year’s theme was “Creator of the Stars of Night.” The following three meditations were interspersed with the hymn. First Meditation...
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Advent Meditation: Waiting
Advent I Midweek Evening Prayer Isaiah 64:1-9: Waiting December 3, 2014 “The Advent season is a season of waiting. But our whole life is a season of Advent” (Bonhoeffer). “God … acts for those who...
View ArticleMeditations on the O Antiphons for Advent
An annual tradition at Immanuel is a choral Evening Prayer service toward the end of Advent, featuring student and faculty choirs and instruments. This year, the central part of the service was the...
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Sermo Dei: Ad te levavi (Advent I, 2016)
Ad te levavi – First Sunday of Advent November 27, 2016 Matthew 21:1-9 Does the character of a leader matter? Last year, a mega-church pastor was expelled after his multiple affairs came to light....
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Sermo Dei: Gaudete (Advent 3, 2016)
Gaudete – Third Sunday of Advent December 11, 2016 Matthew 11:2-11 “Rejoice in the Lord always.” Always? That’s fine for church – but it seems so unrealistic. “Rejoice” is the theme for today. It’s...
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Three Meditations for Evening Prayer
Immanuel Lutheran School Choral Evening Prayer for Advent Three Meditations on Savior of the Nations, Come December 14, 2016 I. A Light to the Nations We tell the story of the world by the stories of...
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Sermo Dei: Rorate Coeli (Advent IV) 2016
Rorate Coeli – Fourth Sunday of Advent December 18, 2016 John 1:19-28 What is destroying your soul? As surely as rust causes metal to crumble, as surely as the acid burns holes in your esophagus, so...
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