For the past month, throughout advent, we’ve been looking at the people who were expecting Jesus. In the town of Nain there was a person who wasn’t expecting him at all. But her lack of expectation didn’t stop Jesus from…
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Advent 23: Hungry and rich
Levi had a pretty good job, at least financially. He collected taxes. When you have the Roman army backing you up, you can make a comfortable living collecting taxes. You don’t have many friends, other than tax collectors and other…
Advent 22: Friends
“What do we do? How can we help?” When we have friends who are in the middle of pain and suffering, when we have friends who have no way to get to Jesus for healing because of the crowds, what…
Advent 21: Beggars
We look down on beggars. We figure that they are people who couldn’t get control of themselves, who couldn’t find socially acceptable ways to live. We ignore them if we can. We turn our eyes away. We drop a quarter…
Advent 19: Spectators
A shore can make a great amphitheater. Not the kind of shore that is sand for a thousand feet, not a beach, but a shore. Kind of rocky, a hill creating a bowl, that kind of shore. And so, with…
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