Several years ago, I wrote these liturgies for lighting the candles around the Advent wreath. If you are searching for words to use either in a worship setting or for your own devotional time, I am happy to offer these for consideration. Lighting the First Candle: Hope Call to Worship Lift up your eyes andContinue reading “Advent Candle Liturgies”
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The Most Glamorous Question
A lot of ink and pixels have been spent the past few months on the term “quiet quitting.” In case you’ve managed to avoid hearing about it, here’s a good succinct definition: In a nutshell, “quiet quitting” is about rejecting the notion that work has to take over one’s life and that employees should goContinue reading “The Most Glamorous Question”
Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks
For almost as long as I wrote at my former blog, I undertook a practice every Advent of writing a weekly reflection about the season. I always referred to these posts as “part diary, part devotional:” they’d usually be about my own experiences of the holidays in both life and ministry, and I’d often relateContinue reading “Announcing my new Advent ebook: Four Weeks”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 