At the Advent service I attended Wednesday night, we closed with a great Swedish hymn that exhorts believers to gather in anticipation. “Our hope and expectation, O Jesus, now appear,” we sang; “arise, O Sun so longed for, o’er this benighted sphere.”
But for whom are we waiting as Christmas approaches? What do we expect, for what do we hope, when Jesus …
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