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Advent Year A 2001 by Jason Hefner Isaiah 11:1-10 Advent always catches me by surprise. It is on the calendar for months ahead of time. It comes the same time every year. Thanksgiving is a good indication that Christmas is on the way. Yet, I've noticed that the first Sundays of Advent always MORE... 
Overflowing
in Hopeby John Herrmann Romans 15:4-13 A city slicker moved to a farm and bought a cow. Shortly after, the cow went dry. A farmer, who got word of this, expressed surprise. The city man said he was surprised too. “I can't understand it, for if a person ever was considerate of an animal, I was of MORE...
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Sunday In Adventby Brent Ham Romans 15:4-13 This morning I want to discuss a particular book by an author, who to this date has written over 42 world famous books! His books are being published in over 34 different languages and can be found in many homes. His work is so well respected MORE...
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Advent Aby Roger Haugen Matthew 3:1-12 Once there was a man who was a bit of a bum. Talented and successful, he neglected his wife and his children, his work and his friends, his community and his colleagues. He drank too much, lost his temper too often, was cruel too many times. MORE...
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Most Important Decoration of Them Allby Don Schultz Matthew 3:1-12 This past week, it didn't feel like December – the temperature almost reached 70 degrees on Wednesday! Quite a change from last year at this time! But if you have any doubt that it really is December, then go to the mall, and you'll see all kinds of MORE...
WHAT NOT TO BUY YOUR
WIFE 1. Don't buy clothing that involves sizes. The chances are one in seven thousand that you will get her size right, and your wife will be offended the other 6999 times. 2. Avoid all things useful. The new silver polish advertised to save hundreds of hours is not going to win you any brownie points. 3. Don't buy jewelry. The jewelry your wife wants, you can't afford. And the jewelry you can afford, she doesn't want. 4. Finally, don't spend too much. "How do you think we're going to afford that?" she'll ask. But don't spend too little. She won't say anything, but she'll think, "Is that all I'm worth?" SOURCE: Herb Forst in Cross River, NY, Patent Trader, in Reader's Digest, Page 69. Contributed by: Dana Chau
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CHRISTMAS MEMORABLE As one department store advertised in December of 1983 "Make this Christmas one you will not soon forget – charge everything!" Contributed by: Jeff Strite
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RESPONSE Frederick Buechner's little book of character sketches of people from the Bible has this to say about the angel Gabriel as he encounters Mary: "She struck him as hardly old enough to have a child at all, let alone this child. But he had been entrusted with a message to give her, and he gave it. He told her what the child was to be named, who he was to be, and something about the mystery that was to come upon her. 'You mustn't be afraid, Mary,' he said. As he said it, he only hoped she wouldn't notice that beneath the great golden wings, he himself was trembling with fear to think that the whole future of Creation hung on the answer of a girl." SOURCE: Frederick Buechner in Peculiar Treasures. Contributed by: D. Greg Ebie
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PERCEPTION OF CHRISTMAS To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. SOURCE: E. B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner. http://www.sermons.org/christmas5.html Contributed by: SermonCentralPRO
THE ADVENT OF HOPEShadowlands -- a Broadway play, later made into a motion picture -- tells the story of C. S. Lewis and his wife, Joy . . .of their intense love for one another . . .and of the shadow that was cast across their life. Shadowlands portrays their struggle with Joy's cancer. After Joy's death, Lewis wrote these words: It is incredible how much happiness, how much joy we sometimes had together after all hope was gone.” The comfort that is at the heart of those words is also at the heart of Advent. The answers to the paradoxes of living by dying, finding peace out of pain, joy in the midst of sorrow, are found in Advent's gospel . . . a gospel that holds forth the possibility that we can find the purest joy even in the shadowlands of our lives. Contributed by: Kathy Findley
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