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A new world is coming
It's almost here... that new world that we hope for... the one where the poor are raised up and the mighty brought down. Revolution is in the air... and it…
Shape up!
There’s a prophet shouting in the wilderness, telling the people that they need to shape up. I wonder… is he talking to us?
Prepare the way
Prepare... get ready... but how and for what? Advent is a time of preparation, but what do you need to sort out?
A threshold moment
The writer of Mark’s Gospel seems not to have been interested in Christmas. He jumps straight in to the story with a strange man out in the wilderness, at one…
Wait Here
It's Advent... and so we wait. But we don't wait for Christmas... so, what do we wait for?
not so average Joe
Joseph is trying to be a good guy, but he's from a long line of pretty dubious characters...
truth matters
Telling the truth matters. Just ask John the Baptist or the prophet Isaiah. The truth helps us to know where we are, what the problems are and what the available…
Magnificent, she says
Mary's song takes a perhaps unexpected twist though…. so before we get all starry eyed and sentimental… this is two pregnant women discussing the downfall of all earthly empires!
prepare the way
How do we prepare the way? What would the refining fire find in us that needs removed? What would the fuller’s soap wash away?