The Church Calendar- Advent

* Hope* Peace* Love* Joy

ADVENT ~ Week 1

The love of God is greater farThan tongue or pen can ever tellIt goes beyond the highest starAnd reaches to the lowest hellThe guilty pair bowed down with careGod gave his son to winHis erring child he reconciledAnd pardoned from his sin

THE LOVE OF GOD

The love of GodHow rich and pureHow measureless and strongIt shall forevermore endureThe saints and angels song

THE LOVE OF GOD

Could we with ink the ocean fillAnd were the skies of parchment madeWere every stalk on earth a quillAnd every man a scribe by tradeTo write the love of God aboveWould drain the ocean dryNor could the scroll contain the wholeThough stretched from sky to sky

THE LOVE OF GOD

“…what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God…But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.”

2 PETER 3:11b-13

In an atmosphere of self-giving love

WHERE IS RIGHTEOUSNESS MOST AT HOME?

God is love.

(NOTE: God doesn’t have love more often than not, God doesn’t reflect love most of the time,God doesn’t feel love when God is in a good mood,God doesn’t love when someone earns it…)

1 JOHN 4:8

Thoughts on The Love of God

1. The Trinity dwells together in a perfect community of self-giving love

Thoughts on The Love of God

The Trinity’sperfect community of self-giving love

PerichoresisThe eternal “dance”of God envelopingone another in love…

Thoughts on The Love of God

1. The Trinity dwells together in a perfect community of self-giving love

2. The universe was created by this love

Thoughts on The Love of God

1. The Trinity dwells together in a perfect community of self-giving love

2. The universe was created by this love3. The Son was sent to earth in love

Thoughts on The Love of God

1. The Trinity dwells together in a perfect community of self-giving love

2. The universe was created by this love3. The Son was sent to earth in love4. The Spirit was sent to earth in love

Thoughts on The Love of God

1. The Trinity dwells together in a perfect community of self-giving love

2. The universe was created by this love3. The Son was sent to earth in love4. The Spirit was sent to earth in love5. The Son will return in love

Thoughts on The Love of God

1. The Trinity dwells together in a perfect community of self-giving love

2. The universe was created by this love3. The Son was sent to earth in love4. The Spirit was sent to earth in love5. The Son will return in love6. In the meantime we’re called to

embody and express that love

ADVENT ~ Week 1

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Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

MARK 12