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843 Acres Advent: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Requested by email subscribers in Dallas, Texas, and Knoxville, TN, as well as by a Facebook fan in New York, NY. The Text I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is...
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843 Acres Advent: O Holy Night
Requested by a follower on Twitter and several email subscribers. The Text And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem,...
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843 Acres Advent: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Requested by a reader in New York, New York. The Text The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together …...
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843 Acres Advent: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Requested by an email subscriber in Bridgeport, CT The Text “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:14 KJV) The Story Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “Believe...
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843 Acres Advent: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
Requested by an email subscriber. Disclosure: This carol and the one coming tomorrow are my personal favorites. I saved “the best” for last. Merry Christmas! – Bethany The Text And there was a...
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843 Acres Christmas Day 1: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Requested by a reader in New York, New York, and an email subscriber in Knoxville, TN. Disclosure: This carol and the one from yesterday are my personal favorites. Merry First Day of Christmas! –...
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843 Acres Christmas Day 2: Good King Wenceslas
The Text Now when they heard these things [the history of Israel's rejection of the prophets of the Lord, including Jesus] they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the...
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843 Acres Christmas Day 3: O Light Incarnate!
The Text In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that...
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843 Acres Christmas Day 6: As with Gladness Men of Old
The Text And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its...
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843 Acres Christmas Day 7: Great Is Thy Faithfulness
The Text The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23) The Story Thomas Chisholm was born...
View ArticleDo You Hear What I Hear? :: Advent’s Peace
“God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people,” observes Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his book, God is in the Manger. God does not go the way...
View ArticleO Holy Night :: Advent’s Peace
On Christmas Eve of 1906 Reginald Fessenden, who had been one of Thomas Edison’s chief chemists, was testing a new generator for radio transmissions. In what became the first broadcast of voice and...
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Christ’s life begins and ends in poverty. It’s easy to see the depth of pain in the end; where the Messiah is homeless and stripped of his sole earthly possession moments before being hung on a cross....
View ArticleWhen Christian Leaders Fail (Part I):: Tolkien’s Letters
By J.R.R. Tolkien I think I am as sensitive as you (or any other Christian) to the ‘scandals’, both of clergy and laity. I have suffered grievously in my life from stupid, tired, dimmed, and even bad...
View ArticleWhen Christian Leaders Fail (Part II) :: Tolkien’s Letters
By J.R.R. Tolkien Higher devotion to religion is, of course, degraded in some degree by all ‘professionals’ (and by all professing Christians. But you cannot maintain a tradition of learning or true...
View ArticleHow to be Married to your Soul Mate :: Tolkien’s Letters
By J.R.R. Tolkien The essence of a fallen world is that the best cannot be attained by free enjoyment, or by what is called ‘self-realization’ (usually a nice name for self-indulgence, wholly inimical...
View ArticleSaved by Mercy :: Tolkien’s Letters
By J.R.R. Tolkien If you re-read all the passages dealing with Frodo and the Ring, I think you will see that not only was it quite impossible for him to surrender the Ring, in act or will, especially...
View ArticleDo You Hear What I Hear? :: Advent’s Peace
“God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people,” observes Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his book, God is in the Manger. God does not go the way...
View ArticleSilent Night :: Advent’s Peace
Christ’s life begins and ends in poverty. It’s easy to see the depth of pain in the end; where the Messiah is homeless and stripped of his sole earthly possession moments before being hung on a cross....
View ArticleO Holy Night :: Advent’s Peace
On Christmas Eve of 1906 Reginald Fessenden, who had been one of Thomas Edison’s chief chemists, was testing a new generator for radio transmissions. In what became the first broadcast of voice and...
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