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Danny Cortez. In order for us to understand the joy of the first people that celebrated Christ’s birth, we have to understand the context in with Jesus came. Jesus came in the fulness of time—a time marked by darkness and evil. A time of great misunderstanding of who God is. Jesus came to show us what the Old Testament could not. He showed us what God is like. Jesus shows us what love looks like in this darkest of times.
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Ryan Longnecker. The love we see in the advent story of John 1 is this: God refusing to be distant, drawing near, making us not just neighbors but goes even further to be called the sons and daughters.
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Ryan Longnecker. In baptism, we exchange our broken and missing/incomplete humanity for the life of Christ, which also empowers us to join in that creative, redemptive work of making peace. Restoring what's missing, healing what's broken.
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Danny Cortez. In this busy season, it's easy to be in a rush that we miss seeing and participating in the divine presence of God. Like the first advent, when God came disguised in a humble state, the sacred is often concealed in the ordinary and mundane. But if we can pause and listen, we can be brought into wonder over God's creation.
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