by revruss November 29, 2023
Feasts and Festivals

What Are You Doing for Advent?

Advent is almost upon us. What are your plans? Find some ideas below. Want a more holy Advent? It's as easy as 3, 2, 1! (Okay, that may be an oversimplification, but it is a pretty easy, yet effective, approach) https://youtu.be/R0fIzeBF5DA?si=mTVwHhnEHJNKQlWk Need some ideas for your Advent spiritual discipline? Here you go. https://youtu.be/izV41yoYGvI?si=q5sVHYZVswh1cYlu And don't forget to make use of this free resource from Beyond Sunday. https://youtu.be/yXmBoNS44Lo?si=EFmeqs34xrNWbBIu Wishing you a happy and meaningful ...

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by revruss November 2, 2022
Faith Practices , Feasts and Festivals

Five Reasons I Love This Advent Resource

My friend and colleague, Rev. Kelly Fitzgerald, and I have put together a FREE resource for families to use at home this Advent, and here's five reasons I'm excited about it. It's Not a To-Do List This is a not a devotion-a-day resource where you have to commit to gathering your family together in the same place at the same time every day while you read and reflect on scripture ...

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by revruss November 28, 2020
Faith Practices , Feasts and Festivals

Advent!

Advent begins tomorrow! We all could use a season of hope, joy, peace and love? If you are from a tradition that doesn't generally observe Advent, this is time to start. If you have friends who are not "Advent people," invite them to join us. It's been a rough year, and we could all use an extra dose of the time of holy expectation and anticipation that is Advent.  Do you ...

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by revruss December 8, 2019
Feasts and Festivals , Messages

No Direct Flight to Bethlehem

It's the second Sunday of Advent. The time is drawing nigh. Houses are being decorated. Christmas cards are being addressed. Menus are being planned. Cantatas and children's pageants are being rehearsed. Budgets are starting to strain, and nerves are beginning to frazzle. We swore last year that we wouldn’t do it again. We would not spend our weekends and evenings elbowing through crowds or driving around in the rain searching ...

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by revruss November 23, 2018
Faith Practices

Getting Ready to Get Ready

Now is the time (as you recover from your Thanksgiving food coma) to be intentional about creating a meaningful Advent and Christmas season for yourself and the people you love. Join us. Sign up here for the free mini course, Getting Ready to Get Ready. Isn't a better Christmas worth 15 minutes a day for five days? Sign up today. 

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by revruss November 20, 2018
Pop Culture

Best Thanksgiving Movies

If you're too full after Thanksgiving to move and go out to the movies, here are a few to view in-home. Pieces of April is not just my favorite Thanksgiving movie, but one of my favorite movies of all time. It's a tale of redemption. My husband tells me I think everything is a tale of redemption--but this story truly is. Planes, Trains and Automobiles has been out there for awhile, but, ...

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Here’s to Hoping

We lit the candle of Hope yesterday in church. We looked at the story of Daniel and the Lion's den But didn't talk so much about the lions It was Daniels defiant act of prayer that held our attention Prayer that was illegal Done right in an open window where everyone could see A subversive act of resistance that testified to all That his God was greater than the king. That his God was ...

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