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Coming In For a Landing

22 Saturday Dec 2007

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I’m actually writing this on Friday night, because tomorrow I will have a long day working at Radioshack, which followed a long day and night of working there. Yes, it is the Christmas season and this is my eight season working retail. I am a bit tired and worn out. But I am not discouraged — I have had a chance to prepare my heart over the past few weeks and I am ready to celebrate Christmas in all of its glory with my family (church family included.)

As I look back over the posts for the last two months, I realized I’ve been very busy writing. There has been no lack of available topics. This is an early warning that my posting will drop off dramatically following Sunday. This will be today’s only post. Sunday will have the usual two posts. I am planning on taking a vacation from blogging starting Wednesday. I’ll pick it up sometime around the first again. Even though I enjoy doing this very much, it’s time for a break.

Thanks to all my regular readers — I love that you check in on the Southside on a regular basis — which by the way will be part of a new name for our blog starting in the new year. Have a great weekend and a great day in the Lord on Sunday. Blessings….

Weekly Lectionary Readings

22 Saturday Dec 2007

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4th Sunday of Advent
December 23, 2007

Christmas is literally around the corner. The Fourth Sunday of Advent is upon us. This week’s scriptures get us another step closer to the story. The prophet Isaiah tells us the baby’s name will be Emmanuel — God with us. Think of the implications — here is God of very God — and he came down to earth to dwell among us — pretty amazing, I think. We tend to forget that Christ came willingly and this was not plan b. I love what Paul writes in Romans:
1 This letter is from Paul…to preach his Good News. 2 God promised this Good News long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures. 3 The Good News is about his Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David’s family line, 4 and he was shown to be the Son of God when he was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through Christ, God has given us the privilege and authority as apostles to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.
I’ve said this over the past few years — we tend to romanticize the Nativity story, but the story is incomplete without the cross and incomplete without Easter — we cannot divorce the Child in the cradle with the Christ on the cross. It all comes together in one marvelous story. It’s our job as Paul tells us to tell the story — That Jesus came to earth — that Jesus would be with us — that He would save us from our sins — so we would tell others about Jesus and give glory to Him when they believe and obey Him. We make the gospel so complicated and Romans simplifies it for us. Let’s go out and seize the day!
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