by debracelovsky | Dec 13, 2024 | Christmas
Recently, I was rereading this post from December of 2020, the first of those terrible covid years, and remembering how very much we needed this message in that season. Fact is, we need it in every season. I was thinking about how interesting it is that Christmas...
by debracelovsky | Dec 24, 2023 | Christmas, Word
He was a contemporary of the great Isaiah, a peasant whose work is a mere seven chapters. Micah’s writings have been described as rugged, but clear and intelligible. And it is unlikely that we will experience any Christmastime without hearing or quoting from his...
by debracelovsky | Dec 4, 2023 | Christmas
The darkness seems absolute. Men before us have forgotten that it hides the morning star. Irwin Edman, Professor of Philosophy In the home we built four years ago, our study faces due east toward the southern end of the Mayacamas Mountains, an ancient volcanic range...
by debracelovsky | Dec 8, 2022 | Christmas
I like to begin with the priest in the Temple. We can begin our advent meditations in any number of places—the stable, out on the hillside, with the vivid Old Testament prophecies. I particularly love the opening of Luke’s account. He begins at the breaking of...
by debracelovsky | Dec 7, 2020 | Christmas
The past looks forward to the future. Nothing in the past will satisfy the hearts of men. We may ransack antiquity but we shall find there no substitute for Christ. W.F. Adeney, 19th c. minister and biblical scholar What does Alexander the Great have to do with the...
by debracelovsky | Dec 1, 2020 | Christmas
Behold the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.Luke 1:38 Here at the beginning of Advent, and after a year that feels shredded, we turn once again to the Christmas story for beauty and for comfort in its familiar scenes and eternal promise....
