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Advent
In this season of advent here are two resources I want to share with you.
The first is this reflection on Advent.
“Advent is a season of expectation and preparation for the coming of Christ — both his coming as a baby on the first Christmas Day, and also his second coming at the end of time. Advent has some important lessons for us, and here are a few which I have been contemplating.”
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Read more on Helen’s substack here
And secondly is a short Bible message on Advent 2.0:
Is there another Advent we can be looking forward to? We firmly believe that there is and we hope this podcast will encourage you this Christmas.
You can listen here.
Autumn
“Perhaps these days are a wake-up call for the West, and indeed for the Western church. The lazy summer days of plenty are over. We need to recognise that autumn is here and winter is coming.”
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Read the full article here.
The Big Pharma gospel
The Big Pharma gospel: episode 19 of the Owl & Badger podcast.
There is only one true Gospel and it’s not found in a jab.
Awake and alert?
“The challenge facing the orthodox Christian church in the west today is to be awake and alert to reality…”
Much of the UK church needs to wake from slumber and William Philip (Minister of the Tron Church in Glasgow) outlines why in this excellent guest post over on The Owl Tree.
Live not by Lies
A review of Rod Dreher’s excellent book ‘Live not by Lies’, a title taken from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s call and example as an anti-communist dissident.