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Sunday Devotions: "Prepare the Way of the Lord"

Sunday Devotions: "Prepare the Way of the Lord"

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Chris Gehrz
Dec 04, 2022
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I’m a Christian historian who’s been celebrating Advent for many years now, but it’s only recently struck me just how difficult an exercise in historical imagination this season requires. If you think about, Advent expects Christians — people who often have spent their entire lives looking at images of Jesus and listening to the words of Jesus — to try …

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