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- Title: Preaching Helps: First Sunday of Advent to Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany.
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 292 KB
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Advent--Nine Years Later When I wrote my first of these "Preaching Helps" columns in 2003, I shared that I was preaching in a congregation earnestly hoping their bishop will give them a pastor for Christmas. After describing how their eyes were peeled for any activity and their ears perked for any news, I half-whimsically asked, "What could possibly make us that anxious and expectant for the coming of the Christ? A healthy dose of uncertainty, perhaps? How about some honest-to-goodness fretting over the future?" My half-whimsical question has become deadly serious. This year, we heard that the world was going to end on May 21, 2011, and then that Judgment Day will come on October 21. While some among us might make light of such theology, we can scarcely snicker at the ways the churches whose theologies we hold dear are coming to an end. As I write these words in mid-July, we are waiting to see whether Congress and the President will raise the United States' debt ceiling, or whether the world-as-we-know-it will in fact end on August 2. With the unemployment rate over 9 percent and one in every 519 U.S. households receiving a foreclosure filing in April 2011, many people's world-as-we-know-it already ended. And this is just in the United States.