Let us pray in Advent with longing and waiting for the coming of the Lord: Father, in heaven, our hearts desire the warmth of your love and our minds search for the light of your Word. Increase our longing for Christ our Savior, and give us the strength to grow in love, so that the […]
We can look for all the signs we want for the Lord’s Second Advent, but the reality is that we will not know when Christ returns until it has already happened (Mark 13:32-37). One day it will happen, and although that has not happened yet, may we be aware of our own impending deaths as […]
Let us pray that we reign with Jesus by serving with him: God our Father when you wanted to show us that you are the Lord of all people, you sent us Jesus your Son as the humble servant of your love. Give us faith to learn from him that to serve is to reign. […]
The prophet Ezekiel envisioned a future in which God himself would shepherd the people with fairness and justice. The leaders of ancient Israelite society had not practiced fairness and justice (Ezekiel 34:1-4, 11-12, 20-22). It was a society in which the strong and influential forgot that the advocate for the poor, the weak, and the […]
