Advent 2013 Devotions (Page 8)
This year during the season of Advent, beginning on December 1, we will have (almost) daily Advent devotions available here, and sent by email. We hope you enjoy these devotions written by members and friends of LMLC, and Advent hymns. If you would like to receive emails from LMLC, please send us an email via the contact page. Happy Advent!
December 11, 2013
Advent Hymn – Savior of the Nations, Come Text: attr. Ambrose of Milan, 340-397; Martin Luther, 1483-1546 Savior of the nations, come; virgin’s son, make here your home. Marvel now, O heav’n and earth: God has chosen such a birth. Not by human flesh and blood, but the mystic Breath of God, was the Word of God made flesh, fruit of woman, blossom fresh.…
December 10, 2013
by Rev. Julie G. Hutson A Reflection on Isaiah 41: 14-21 Although I am far away from you, beloved community, I imagine that there are more than a few of us who are thinking about Christmas gifts. What will we give to those we love that might adequately epress that love? As a child I used to go to the local drugstore (Winton’s Rexall Drugs) and buy my father a bottle of…
December 9, 2013
Advent Hymn – Unexpected and Mysterious Text: Jeannette M. Lindholm, b. 1961 Unexpected and mysterious is the gentle word of grace. Everloving and sustaining is the peace of God’s embrace. If we falter in our courage and we doubt what we have known, God is faithful to console us as a mother tends her own. In a momentary meeting of eternity and time, Mary…