Read: Isaiah 9:6-7, Ephesians 1:3-10 To catch up, don't forget to visit last week's post: Spend Less. This time every year, I think of the French philospher Jacques Derrida. Weird, I know. But stick with me. Derrida named the inherent problem with giving gifts: their unspoken obligations. If …
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Advent 1 – Spend Less
Let's be honest. We know we shouldn't buy so much stuff. Deep down, we all understand it. How can we who follow the Christ who told a pious young man to give up everything he owns still think we can fill our lives with more stuff? We who talk about "putting the Christ in Christmas" also camp …
Advent 2016
While the Christmas season has begun to creep into Halloween out in our culture, we are given a different season in the church. A season which comes first. Advent is marked as a season of anticipation and waiting. Like Jesus’s parable of the bridesmaids in Matthew, this waiting has both a sense …