andrewarndt

Monday mornings are such a funny time for me... after church on Sunday night, I feel like a bomb has exploded in my head, and I spend the next 24…

I absolutely love reflecting on the "year"... both the year spent and the year upcoming.  The chance to think back upon all that happened (and didn't happen) and to think…

Okay okay, so it's been a few days since I've posted an "Advent Words"... been a bit busy : ) The earliest Christian confessions included a line that went something…

Matthew recollects the story of Jesus "advent" into the world as follows: 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the…

Friday is Sabbath in Arndtville, so in lieu of writing a blog, I'll post the weekly Advent prayer from the Book of Common Prayer... which, speaking of, if you don't…

The great 20th century writer JRR Tolkien (of Lord of the Rings fame) coined a literary term that I think is absolutely brilliant: "eucatastrophe".  Eucatastrophe refers to a sudden, dramatic…

Once upon a time, a lonely Jew toughing out life in a hard place penned these words: Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your mercy…

Jesus, we are told, is the "light of the world."  This light is intimately and definitionally related to the life that he is and that he brings.  John declares: "In…

I love this verse... from the early chapters of Luke: Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation…

Why are we here?  What are we made for?  What does it mean to be human?  And how can we be more fully alive in our humanness? In one way…