Advent 2020: Tear Down the Heavens
Dressed in Righteousness
Updated & expanded for 2023
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Living as Captives
Our text today matches, at least in part, last week’s lectionary passage (Isaiah 40). Just as in Isaiah 40, a message of comfort is given to a long-weary people living in exile. These people are described as the “poor, brokenhearted, the captives, the prisoners” (vs.1). Such a description fits well the situation of those who have been removed from their homeland, forced to work for a…
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