One of the things we've lost in society and culture, and I dare say in the academy and even the church, is the idea of nuance. We have become soundbite Christians who, if we cannot succinctly define something in the equivalent of a tweet, then we don't want to hear it. - ++Bryant

Ecclesiology (the doctrine of the church) matters because “it demands we return to the Bible to find out who we are and whom we are meant to serve”

-- Trevin Wax
www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin...

Amen. Congratulations on finishing your dissertation. You’ve got this!

Creeping up

Advent 2–“dreaming”
Day 4-God’s Word
Day 5-God’s Sign
Day 6-God’s Song

Advent 3–“healing”
Day 7-God’s Glory
Day 8-Earth’s Peace
Day 9-God’s Favor

Advent 4–“promise”
Day 10-“God has told us”
Day 11-“Let us go and see”
Day 12-Testify and treasure

Merry first day of Christmas! We have themes for Advent, so why not for the 12 days of Christmas? Expand the Advent themes to what changes b/c Jesus is born— into three 3 days, for example.

So day 1 (Advent 1 is “Waiting” in the UCOC) could be “Born this day a Savior”. Day 2, Christ. Day 3, Lord.

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“The perfection of human nature consists perhaps in its very growth in goodness.”
— St. Gregory of Nyssa