Comments on: Everyone Forgets Advent http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/12/05/everyone-forgets-advent/ A First Things Blog Wed, 22 May 2013 01:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Advent Meditation http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/12/05/everyone-forgets-advent/comment-page-1/#comment-55244 Advent Meditation Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:20:23 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=37313#comment-55244 [...] Everyone Forgets Advent Everyone Forgets Advent This year, I picked up a new book of daily meditations for Advent, Prepare the Way, by Dr. Ronald Thomas. First Things readers might know him as the husband of our favorite home-schooling poet, Sally Thomas, but he is also assistant professor of … Read more on First Things (blog) [...]

]]> By: Michael Snow http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/12/05/everyone-forgets-advent/comment-page-1/#comment-55239 Michael Snow Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:13:38 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=37313#comment-55239 “Among the things we are waiting for this Advent is death. . . .”
I just read another excellent piece that included that theme.
http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/2011/12/06/advent-and-the-four-last-things/

And as we awake to “our own death and judgment” do we also awake to the fate of our neighbor or co-worker or friend who does not know Christ?

In “the preparation of our hearts,” do we consider that we may be the only witness to the meaning of Christmas who will cross the path of a lost soul?

After all, that is why Christ has called us, to be his witnesses.

]]> By: Blake http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/12/05/everyone-forgets-advent/comment-page-1/#comment-55150 Blake Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:32:10 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=37313#comment-55150 It’s easy to think that “everyone” forgets Advent when you yourself are in a bookstore.

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