Reflections on life, faith, church and community in the 21st. Century.
In the Christian calendar the four Sundays approaching Christmas are designated the season of Advent. We prepare ourselves for the coming of Jesus Christ. It is not simply a reminder to us of the coming annual celebration of the birth of Christ. It takes us back to the centuries before the incarnation when the people of God awaited the arrival of the promised Messiah. In many respects it is a strange thing to have a festival to commemorate waiting. We usually are not very good at waiting, but then perhaps that is the very reason that we need to be so conscious of it. The waiting of Advent is not the waiting of despair but rather that of expectancy of hope. Let us wait upon the Lord.
Come in out of the hustle and bustle of life. This is a place to reflect on God's grace and to explore God's word. It is also a place in which to ponder the spirit of our age and what the Christian faith has to say about it. Just to set the context I invite you to watch and listen to Creation Calls.
Faith that sees you through! From time to time we encounter the stories of people whose faith allows them to resist despair and to hold firm whatever happens. I have begun to collect some of those stories and will add to their number as I encounter more of them. To read what is there now, click on Stories of Faith.
