Category: Advent

Advent Podcast #2: God With Us Misfits

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Advent Cry: Why are You so interested in me?

Can you relate?

“…As she nears the well with fevered thoughts she pulls up because there is a Man who appears to know she’s arriving.

It’s as if He’s waiting there for her.

She gingerly steps toward Him, taking note the look of bemusement on His face. What strikes her most is He is most obviously a Jew.

And He’s standing right where she needs to go!

 

…This week, on the Pasture’s Podcast.

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Advent Podcast #1: God With Us Misfits

 

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O Samaria, My Samaria!

We each have ‘Samarias’ in our hearts where there are found secrets, fears, follies, rejections, and hurts..and, just as the Savior does for this poor misfit and outcast in John 4, He will also make an intentional visit to such places in my life, to set me free of them.

He has love enough to overcome the exiled places in me.

Today, on the Pasture’s Podcast…

 

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How Long, Lord?

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Mr. Spurgeon prayed this before his congregation more than 150 years ago. It’s still on the lips of groaning saints the world over…

“Let all nations know their God.

Wherever there are wars and strife, let them cease when the end is answered.

Let slavery loose her fetters; let liberty reign everywhere.

Let the Advent of Christ soon arrive.

Let the idols be dashed in pieces; let all false foundations be razed to the ground, and may He come whose right it is to reign.

O Jesus, the world hath waited long; and we have heard the word which saith, “Overturn; overturn;”

but when will You stop the overturn to establish the righteous things, and to cast down all evil?

When will You come to be King of kings and Lord of lords?

And now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory for ever and ever, for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.”

Charles H. Spurgeon

Metropolitan Tabernacle, London

April 19, 1863