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The Final Advent … more poignant than grief!

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on December 16, 2013
  • Christmas

Just listened to an outstanding Advent sermon (12/15/2013) from Rich Nathan at Vineyard Columbus, Ohio. Nathan preached on suffering from Romans 8, explaining that as we wait for the final Advent, where there will be […]

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On the 11th day of Christmas (January 5), my true love gave me … This??

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on January 5, 2011
  • Christmas

1.  Here is the reading for the 11th day of Christmas, January 5th: Matthew 2:16-18 (New International Version, ©2010)  16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he […]

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The Christ child is on fire!

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on December 15, 2010March 5, 2019
  • Advent

Robert Southwell (1561-1595) was a Jesuit priest from England who was martyred in 1595.  During Advent I like to ponder his poem “The Burning Babe.”  It is a strange, extended metaphor in which the baby […]

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The great and coming day of the Lord can make us happy!

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on December 1, 2010March 5, 2019
  • Christmas

When the Church historically spoke of the coming again of the Lord, it always thought of the the great day of judgment. During Advent it is good to spend time thinking about God coming in […]

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Not everyone can wait…

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on November 30, 2010March 5, 2019
  • Advent

July 2010 … Mt. Sinai (Waiting for the new day) Not everyone can wait, says German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from a German prison in 1943…    “The only ones who can wait are people […]

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Read the Scripture, exit this world, and go to a place

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on November 29, 2010March 5, 2019
  • Advent

In the 1939 musical fantasy “The Wizard of Oz,” the good witch Glinda tells Dorothy to click her heels together and think to herself, “There’s no place like home.” As she repeatedly chants “There’s no […]

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The wonder, the mystery of Christmas

  • by Don Follis
  • Posted on December 9, 2009March 5, 2019
  • Christmas

Augustine wrote in the 5th century… Oh food and bread of Angels, the Angels are filled by you, but where are you for my sake? In a mean lodging, in a manger. He who rules […]

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Arno River, Florence, Italy; June 2019

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