As we head into the last Sunday of Advent, we reflect on our long period of waiting and prepare our hearts to receive the Christ child.
This week LyLena Es...
My friends and I sometimes joke that, if I wanted to, I could easily become The Villain. Sometimes it is in reference to my ambition, other times it is a react...
This week our authors dealt with the theme of impatience. Ethan Hooper wrote about his frustration in waiting for God to suddenly appear, like the way God blin...
Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land, saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ...
Recently I have been reminded that God’s work is not limited to any particular scale; He is Lord over the geopolitical, the world-historical, the rise and fall...
Antonio in Rudolfo Anaya’s book, Bless Me, Ultima, is impatient. He pushes himself to be a devout Catholic and becomes the priest of his friend group at age se...
This week on the Ichthus’ 2021 Advent blog we had a meditation by Owen Sughrue on how to approach ‘doing good’ while we see evildoers prosper around us.
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“But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.” — Malachi 3:15 NIV
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Today is the first Sunday of Advent, the first day of a period of watching and waiting. Advent is also the church’s new year where the cycle of the lectionary ...
