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: Who Doesn’t Love a Baby?
This last week of Advent is the week of Love! Awake! Awake, Tziyon!Clothe yourself with your strength!Dress in your splendid garments,Yerushalayim, the holy city!For the uncircumcised and the uncleanwill enter you no more.Shake off the dust! Arise!Be enthroned, Yerushalayim!Loosen the chains on your neck,captive daughter of Tziyon!For thus says Adonai:“You were sold for nothing,and you will …
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: Do All Things In Love
This last week of Advent is the week of Love! “Everything is permitted,” you say? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted?” Maybe, but not everything is edifying. No one should be looking out for his own interests, but for those of his fellow. Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising questions …
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: Peace on Earth Begins at Home
This second week of Advent is the week of Peace! I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels;but if I lack love, I have become merelyblaring brass or a cymbal clanging.I may have the gift of prophecy,I may fathom all mysteries, know all things,have all faith — enough to move mountains;but if I …
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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: Against Busyness
This second week of Advent is the week of Peace! It was at that time that Yeshua said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you concealed these things from the sophisticated and educated and revealed them to ordinary folks. Yes, Father, I thank you that it pleased you to do this.“My Father …
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 …
Notes From the Parsonage 