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John Martin, The Plains of Heaven. I have been writing about The Four Last Things: the traditional subjects of the four Sundays in Advent – Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. The third of the four last things is the theme of Heaven. St. John receives a vision in...
MY SERIOUS READING IN 2020
Destined For Glory: The Meaning of Suffering, Margaret Clarkson, 1983 Evangelical Preaching: An Anthology of Sermons by Charles Simeon, edited by James Houston, 1986 Napoleon: A Biography, Andrew Roberts Eerdman’s Book of Famous Prayers Through the Centuries, 1983...
ADVENT WREATH 3
The third Sunday in Advent reminds us of John the Baptist who proclaimed the coming of the Messiah. He was the last in a long line of Hebrew prophets sent to prepare his listeners for the coming of the promised Messiah. He struck a chord in the hearts of his...
THE LAST JUDGMENT
The Advent Prayer Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility; so that, at the last day, when he shall come again in his...
ADVENT WREATH 2
The second Sunday of Advent reminds us of the Prophets who prepared for the coming of Christ by their witness. “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned…For to us a child is born, to us...
THE FOUR LAST THINGS
In Advent we look forward. We rekindle the eager hope and fear with which the Old Testament prophets looked forward to the coming of the promised Messiah; we prepare ourselves to celebrate his birth at Christmas. When the Lord Christ came to live among us, he taught...
THE ADVENT WREATH
The Advent Wreath is meant to visually remind us of the themes of the season through the increasing coming of light to dispel darkness in the coming of the Messiah. Each Sunday a candle is lit with readings and prayers to emphasize the theme of the day. For example,...
DON’T OVERLOOK ADVENT
While we are looking forward to celebrating Christmas this year as perhaps we have never done so before, we must not overlook the next four weeks when we celebrate the season of Advent. We need to observe it as a time of watching and waiting for the coming of Jesus in...
HOW CAN WE CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING IN 2020?
In 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation designating November 26 of that year as a national day of thanksgiving to recognize the role of providence in creating the new United States and the new federal Constitution. In 1863, in the midst of the Civil...
BE THANKFUL
“Be thankful (“Cultivate thankfulness”, The Message). Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether...
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