Merry Christmas! Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God; and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God. Those who do not love, do not know God; because God is love. Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so …
Untriumphantly: No One Wants Bought Love
This last week of Advent is the week of Love! “All you who are thirsty, come to the water!You without money, come, buy, and eat!Yes, come! Buy wine and milkwithout money — it’s free!Why spend money for what isn’t food,your wages for what doesn’t satisfy?Listen carefully to me, and you will eat well,you will enjoy …
Untriumphantly: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
This third week of Advent is the week of Joy! On that day you will say:“I thank you, Adonai,because, although you were angry at me,your anger is now turned away;and you are comforting me.“See! God is my salvation.I am confident and unafraid;for Yah Adonai is my strength and my song,and he has become my salvation!”Then you will joyfully draw …
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Untriumphantly: Joy in Simple Things
This third week of Advent is the week of Joy! In the days of Herod, King of Y’hudah, there was a cohen named Z’kharyah who belonged to the Aviyah division. His wife was a descendant of Aharon, and her name was Elisheva. Both of them were righteous before God, observing all the mitzvot and ordinances of Adonai blamelessly. But they had no children, …
Untriumphiantly: Gratefulness
This third week of Advent is the week of Joy! Then Miryam said,“My soul magnifies Adonai; and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior,who has taken notice of his servant-girl in her humble position.For — imagine it! — from now on, all generations will call me blessed! “The Mighty One has done great things for me!Indeed, his name is holy; and in every generation he has mercy on …
Untriumphantly: A New Beginning
This second week of Advent is the week of Peace! You have enlarged the nationand increased their joy;they rejoice in your presenceas if rejoicing at harvest time,the way men rejoicewhen dividing up the spoil.For the yoke that weighed them down,the bar across their shoulders,and their driver’s goadyou have broken as on the day of Midyan[’s …
Untriumphantly: Sit Down!
This second week of Advent is the week of Peace! On their way Yeshua and his talmidim came to a village where a woman named Marta welcomed him into her home. She had a sister called Miryam who also sat at the Lord’s feet and heard what he had to say. But Marta was busy with all the work …
Untriumphantly: Calm Down
This second week of Advent is the week of Peace! Here is how the birth of Yeshua the Messiah took place. When his mother Miryam was engaged to Yosef, before they were married, she was found to be pregnant from the Ruach HaKodesh. Her husband-to-be, Yosef, was a man who did what was right; so he made …
Untriumphantly: All Things New
This first week of Advent is the week of Hope! Adonai, you are my God.I exalt you, I praise your name.For you have accomplished marvels,[fulfilled] ancient plans faithfully and truly.For you have made a city a heap of stones,turned a fortified city into rubble,made the foreigners’ fortressa city that will never be rebuilt.Therefore mighty peoples …
Untriumphantly: Hope for Now and the Future
This first week of Advent is the week of Hope! This is the word that Yesha‘yahu the son of Amotz saw concerning Y’hudah and Yerushalayim:In the acharit-hayamimthe mountain of Adonai’s housewill be established as the most important mountain.It will be regarded more highly than the other hills,and all the Goyim will stream there.Many peoples will go and say,“Come, let’s …
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Notes From the Parsonage 