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What the Christmas Nativity Story is Really About

What the Christmas Nativity Story is Really About

(Featured image: Black Nativity, c. 2000, Xavier University) What the Christmas Nativity Story is Really About From New Dawning Light Advent Devotional, at Hope Rising, Day Twenty Luke’s Gospel account of Jesus’s birth is not a bedtime story that calms boogeyman fears. The Advent narrative is a 

Las Posadas: Where Can Hope Find Lodging?

Las Posadas: Where Can Hope Find Lodging?

Las Posadas: Where Can Hope Find Lodging? A Sermon for Binkley Baptist Church, the First Sunday of Advent—Hope Texts: Jeremiah 33: 14-16 and Luke 21: 25-36 I’m a sucker for good nativity story. Give me a children’s re-enactment of Luke Chapter 2, with its first-grade