Channel 9 used to have a repeat of Ellen at 4.30am weekdays. Since Ellen has been banished from even early morning tv they’re now showing infomercials instead.
Infomercials are more socially acceptable than Ellen.
Drill-bits, Mattress Overlays, Ladders, Home Treadmills, and Static-Electric Dusters. All more socially acceptable than Ellen.
December means Christmas Songs, which, if you were liturgically inclined are also mostly Advent songs.
Each year on this date I refer to Andrew Peterson’s Behold The Lamb Of God album, which wonderfully expresses the sense of longing and hope which are only fulfilled through both the first and second comings of the Lord Jesus.
Here’s the album on YouTube playlist with lyric videos.
Of course if you’re a subscriber to any music service you’ll probably find it there.
My Truest Praise by Jon Guerra.
The truest praise is a response, not an action.
More than a word heard clearly
More than a truth felt deeply
More than a song sung sweetly
As a crowd sings with me
Repentance be my truest praise
Repentance be my truest praise
Yet another year of expressing our expectation and hope for Jesus’ return does not lead to some sort of disappointment when we consider all those years past when he has not returned. Rather as we are informed by life on earth as another year goes by we are further convicted about the need for his return as the only hope we have.
From Winn Collier:
We return again to this story, enacting once more the long, hope-filled narrative–not because we have certainty that this Advent (or any hour before we breathe our last) will finally make all the promises come true. We do not embrace Advent as a kind of elaborate denial, a way to play-act that the harshness or sorrow are not so bad as we’ve feared.
Just the opposite: we return to Advent again because of exactly this problem, an inescapable predicament as old as humanity. No matter how hard we try, no matter how ingenious our leaders, no matter our advancements, no matter our triumphs, no matter our very best intentions–we cannot ever, ever undo all the harm we repeatedly do to one another, all the pain we have set loose in our world.Read the whole post here.
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