“Prepare Ye the Way.” Advent is about getting ourselves prepared. Which, in my experience, is quite ironic as I don’t think anything truly prepares you for new birth. Perhaps others have felt prepared for parenting. I did not. I mean, we had a several year long adoption process, so we had done adoption classes, read several parenting books, and had a nursery all set up. But twenty-two and half years ago in a municipal building in Chongqing, China, when they placed a 10-month-old baby girl in...

Something is on the Horizon There are a lot of wonderful words out there that can be used to describe what’s happening during Advent, but few are better than this by Jan Richardson: “The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the...

Take a Chance… “ What Would You Do with a Chance? ” is the title and opening line of a children’s book (but really for all ages) by author Kobi Yamada. I’m guessing many of you have read this book or one of his other two: “ What Do You Do with an Idea? ” and “ What Do You Do with a Problem? ” Sermon possibilities abound with all three. The first book is a wonderful reminder that chances are all around us but sometimes we let them float away because of fear of failing, or fear of rejection or...