Jason G. Edwards
@jasongedwards.bsky.social
Jason G. Edwards is a pastor + writer in Liberty, MO. Forthcoming book on the atonement with InterVarsity Press. Writing at jasongedwards.substack.com
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A weary world still needs this joy. The kind that knows how to sing in the dark. Joy that trusts the dawn without demanding its timetable. Joy that dares to believe God has not stepped away from the ache of things. #advent #joy
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A Meditation on Advent Joy
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December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A weary world still needs this joy. The kind that knows how to sing in the dark. Joy that trusts the dawn without demanding its timetable. Joy that dares to believe God has not stepped away from the ache of things. #advent #joy
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The soul learns joy the same way it learns hope: by staying present to what is real and still choosing to sing.
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The soul learns joy the same way it learns hope: by staying present to what is real and still choosing to sing.
Joy can arrive early, like a candle lit before the room has warmed.
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Joy can arrive early, like a candle lit before the room has warmed.
Joy is often quieter than despair, but it has a longer memory.
December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Joy is often quieter than despair, but it has a longer memory.
Advent teaches us that joy can live alongside weariness without needing to explain itself.
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Advent teaches us that joy can live alongside weariness without needing to explain itself.
Advent joy doesn’t rush in with answers.
It settles beside us when the light is thin and the day has already taken what it wanted.
It settles beside us when the light is thin and the day has already taken what it wanted.
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Advent joy doesn’t rush in with answers.
It settles beside us when the light is thin and the day has already taken what it wanted.
It settles beside us when the light is thin and the day has already taken what it wanted.
December 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Joy, in the gospel sense, is not afraid of hard places. It comes dressed for work, with its sleeves rolled up.
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Joy, in the gospel sense, is not afraid of hard places. It comes dressed for work, with its sleeves rolled up.
God’s future has a way of arriving early, tapping gently on the present, asking to be let in even while the house is still a mess.
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
God’s future has a way of arriving early, tapping gently on the present, asking to be let in even while the house is still a mess.
The scriptures rarely hurry people past their weariness. They let the dust settle. Then, almost without warning, a song begins.
December 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The scriptures rarely hurry people past their weariness. They let the dust settle. Then, almost without warning, a song begins.
There is a pattern here.
Winter becomes a workshop. Silence becomes a teacher. Illness, burnout and the inward seasons have shaped Daigle as much as any spotlight ever has.
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Winter becomes a workshop. Silence becomes a teacher. Illness, burnout and the inward seasons have shaped Daigle as much as any spotlight ever has.
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
Lauren Daigle at the Midland: A Voice Born of Winter and Light
Lauren Daigle’s Kansas City performance revealed a voice shaped by illness, burnout, resilience, and Advent longing—offering joy, honesty, and hard-won hope.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
There is a pattern here.
Winter becomes a workshop. Silence becomes a teacher. Illness, burnout and the inward seasons have shaped Daigle as much as any spotlight ever has.
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
Winter becomes a workshop. Silence becomes a teacher. Illness, burnout and the inward seasons have shaped Daigle as much as any spotlight ever has.
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
“She sings as though her soul remembers the year she was tucked away, listening for signs of life.”
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
Lauren Daigle at the Midland: A Voice Born of Winter and Light
Lauren Daigle’s Kansas City performance revealed a voice shaped by illness, burnout, resilience, and Advent longing—offering joy, honesty, and hard-won hope.
goodfaithmedia.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“She sings as though her soul remembers the year she was tucked away, listening for signs of life.”
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
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“Many people live inside the gap between the faith they were taught to name and the faith life has carved into them.”
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
Lauren Daigle at the Midland: A Voice Born of Winter and Light
Lauren Daigle’s Kansas City performance revealed a voice shaped by illness, burnout, resilience, and Advent longing—offering joy, honesty, and hard-won hope.
goodfaithmedia.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Many people live inside the gap between the faith they were taught to name and the faith life has carved into them.”
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
Christy and I went to Lauren Daigle’s Christmas concert at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City for my birthday. A q and an offered a window into her story.
The essay I’ve shared through Good Faith Media reflects on that evening: goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
@laurendaigle245.bsky.social
The essay I’ve shared through Good Faith Media reflects on that evening: goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
@laurendaigle245.bsky.social
Lauren Daigle at the Midland: A Voice Born of Winter and Light
Lauren Daigle’s Kansas City performance revealed a voice shaped by illness, burnout, resilience, and Advent longing—offering joy, honesty, and hard-won hope.
goodfaithmedia.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Christy and I went to Lauren Daigle’s Christmas concert at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City for my birthday. A q and an offered a window into her story.
The essay I’ve shared through Good Faith Media reflects on that evening: goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
@laurendaigle245.bsky.social
The essay I’ve shared through Good Faith Media reflects on that evening: goodfaithmedia.org/lauren-daigl...
@laurendaigle245.bsky.social
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
—W.B. Yeats
—W.B. Yeats
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
—W.B. Yeats
—W.B. Yeats
An Advent Blessing (a prayer)
Here is the Advent blessing I shared via video earlier in the week. #advent #prayer #blessing #benediction #faith
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Here is the Advent blessing I shared via video earlier in the week. #advent #prayer #blessing #benediction #faith
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An Advent Blessing
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December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
An Advent Blessing (a prayer)
Here is the Advent blessing I shared via video earlier in the week. #advent #prayer #blessing #benediction #faith
open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...
Here is the Advent blessing I shared via video earlier in the week. #advent #prayer #blessing #benediction #faith
open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...
Jason G. Edwards (@jasongedwards)
An Advent Blessing #advent #prayer
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December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Even a single moment of clarity…a new boundary, a gentler tone, a refusal to reenact an inherited script…changes how the whole family breathes.
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Even a single moment of clarity…a new boundary, a gentler tone, a refusal to reenact an inherited script…changes how the whole family breathes.
It takes courage to see the people we love as whole, complicated creatures shaped by wounds we never witnessed. That kind of seeing rearranges the heart. It loosens the hooks of blame and opens a door that is less about forgetting than it is about breathing again.
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It takes courage to see the people we love as whole, complicated creatures shaped by wounds we never witnessed. That kind of seeing rearranges the heart. It loosens the hooks of blame and opens a door that is less about forgetting than it is about breathing again.
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Rudolph gets all the love, so let’s talk about the names of Santa’s other reindeer.
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Rudolph gets all the love, so let’s talk about the names of Santa’s other reindeer.
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #advent
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #advent
I’ve been working on a short story/fable. It’s chock-full of family systems theory. It’s a generational story about a family of foxes living in a valley. Any recommendations on where one might send such a story for consideration?
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’ve been working on a short story/fable. It’s chock-full of family systems theory. It’s a generational story about a family of foxes living in a valley. Any recommendations on where one might send such a story for consideration?
Advent 2 Sermon preview: Chains Shall He Break— Zechariah, Paul, Encanto, Chronicles of Narnia, The Archbishop Desmond Tutu, my mom, and the great naptime escape.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Advent 2 Sermon preview: Chains Shall He Break— Zechariah, Paul, Encanto, Chronicles of Narnia, The Archbishop Desmond Tutu, my mom, and the great naptime escape.
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #advent
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #advent