Advent Week 3 - The Promise of Restoration
Advent anticipates God turning the world upside-down (or perhaps right-side up), restoring everything and everyone to God’s self.
A Blessing for Our Part in the Bigger Story
Blessed are we, gathered already into the plot, part of the epic story you have been writing from long before we were ever born. Thank you that we are not separated into lives of loneliness but joined together as those who were loved into being. We are made for meaning and a purpose that only our days can breathe into action.
Pull us closer to the bigger story that reminds us that our ordinary lives are the stuff of eternity. You fitted each of our days for small efforts and endless attempts to pick ourselves up again. In our triumphs and embarrassments. We need to be told again (sigh) that we are not just everyday problems. We are a story of extraordinary love. -- Kate Bowler
Blessed are we, gathered already into the plot, part of the epic story you have been writing from long before we were ever born. Thank you that we are not separated into lives of loneliness but joined together as those who were loved into being. We are made for meaning and a purpose that only our days can breathe into action.
Pull us closer to the bigger story that reminds us that our ordinary lives are the stuff of eternity. You fitted each of our days for small efforts and endless attempts to pick ourselves up again. In our triumphs and embarrassments. We need to be told again (sigh) that we are not just everyday problems. We are a story of extraordinary love. -- Kate Bowler
Watch Sunday's message including our special Christmas play by Salt House Kids, "Where in the World is Christmas?"
“Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” -- Isaiah 9:6
“This is for us the hardest point, not so much to believe that he is the son of the Virgin and God himself, as to believe that this Son of God is ours. That is where we wilt, but the one who does feel it has become a new creation.” -- Martin Luther
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