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[Mark Bertermann]

Advent blessings, friends!

CREATE-A-GIFT is Saturday.  Please be praying for God's blessings upon it.
If you're involved, come with a servant's heart and a smile.

SUNDAY's focus is again on some Advent texts, plus another.  Also:  we get
to celebrate HOLY COMMUNION together in both worship services.  Please check
out...
	+ Isa. 62.2, 6-7
	+ Malachi 3.1-4
	+ Luke 3.1-6

Guys, if you're open to serving as a "big brother" to a couple of boys in
our congregation, could you let me know?  Thanks.

Here's something to THINK ABOUT...

"History tumbles out a mass of data--wars, famines, murders, and
accidents--along with sunrises and still waters, lilies of the field and
green pastures.  God's people have been convinced that it is possible in
prayer and praise, in listening and believing, to discern meaning in this
apparent chaols and therefore to read good new in the daily life of history.
The means by which this is doe is through the proclamation of Jesus Christ,
the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.  'We do not need Christ to
tell us that the world is full of trouble.  But we do need his explanation
of history if its troubles are not to be meaningless.'  In his life, death,
and resurrection history comes to focus." -- EH Peterson in Reversed
Thunder.

He came for us--hallelujah!
Pastor Mark