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Wilderness can be lonely: Find Hope Advent 2

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Rev Doug Powell

So…I want you to think for a moment of a desert experience…a wilderness experience perhaps. It might have been for a short time or it might have been for a longer time. It might have been of the mind or it might have been an actual time of being lost. Having been in the desert of Arizona in later October…

Are you concerned about Last Days? Advent 1

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Rev Doug Powell

The Last Days Today, is the First Sunday of Advent, the period of preparation for Christmas and the coming of the Christ child. But the dominant idea in today’s readings is the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. Does it not seem a bit strange that the church puts a gloomy prospect before our eyes as…