Advent
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This year I have to a great extent managed to stay clear of the un-Christmas, the festivity now generally referred to in public as Holiday, or "the Holidays." That was partly because of various circumstances that kept me even more at home than usual. And it was partly the silver lining in Alabama having lost
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness.. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, my salvation shall not tarry:I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions:fear not for I will save thee:for I am the Lord thy god, the holy one of Israel, thy Redeemer. Lazily searching for
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen;that ye may know me and believe me:I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Saviour:and there is none that can deliver out of my
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness. We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing,and we all do fade as a leaf:our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away;thou hast hid thy face from us:and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. Back in my Episcopalian days
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above,and let the skies pour down righteousness. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,neither remember iniquity for ever:thy holy city is a wilderness,Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation:our holy and our beautiful house,where our fathers praised thee. This is the first section (verse, stanza, whatever the right word is)
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If we had been told merely to fear [the coming of Christ], we should have mistaken a slavish dread, or the gloom of despair, for godly fear; and if we had been told merely to rejoice, we should perhaps have mistaken a rude freedom and familiarity for joy; but when we are told both to
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The very best that can be said of the fallen and redeemed race of Adam is that they confess their fall and condemn themselves for it and try to recover themselves. And this state of mind, which is in fact the only possible religion left to sinners, is represented to us in the parable of
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Let us then consider this most serious question, which concerns every one of us so nearly: what is it to watch for Christ? He watches for Christ who has a sensitive, eager, apprehensive mind; who is awake, alive, quick-sighted, zealous in seeking and honoring him; who looks out for him in all that happens, and
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Not about, but on the occasion of: the complaint I made last year about the thing called "Holiday": The American Christmas has always, or at least since the middle of the last century or so, had its secularized aspect. That was fine: we were a predominantly Christian country, but plenty of people who did not
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Downtown Mobile a couple of weeks ago.
Light On Dark Water 