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The Most Radical Revolution
Hadil and Yasin have the life everyone dreams of. Young, ambitious and even good-looking, they are University graduates. Yasin works at a lucrative job in the Gulf. The salary, in fact, is more than they can spend, and they are smart enough to invest it for their future. They’ve opened the first ball-gown boutique in…
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The Birth of a Baby
As we journey through Advent this year, we reflect once more on the Christmas story and I am filled with wonder that at the centre of this story, is a baby! Most people love babies. You don’t have to be a mother yourself, or you don’t have to be holding a baby to feel it.…
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Hurry to Find the Messiah
Until I moved to North Africa, shepherds were just part of historical fiction, in stories such as the Nativity or David and his lessons from the fields. Having now lived in a country with many shepherds, I feel some measure of the reality in their lives. In winter, they are out in the sun as…
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Angels we have heard on high
As we journey through Advent this year, we find ourselves reading through the familiar Christmas story. If you are like me, I sometimes try to imagine myself in the story. I wonder what it would have been like to see an angel appear in front of you, or in your room, or in the sky…
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On Kings and Gifts
’Tis the season for reminiscing the original Home Alone, drinking hot chocolate and putting A Charlie Brown Christmas on your proverbial record player. But we’re going to mix things up, this weeks post talks about kings and gifts. Nations shall come to your light, and kings shall bring gold and frankincense. —Isaiah 60:2–6 A cursory…
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Beside a Dry Well
As we journey through Advent this year, we reflect once more on the Christmas story. For most of us in the modern world, its hard to imagine what it would have been like for Mary, a young girl, pregnant before her marriage to Joseph, living in the Middle East, where unwed mothers still face enormous…
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While shepherds watch their flocks by night…
As we journey through Advent this year, we reflect once more on the Christmas story and we are reminded how God reveals His plans to such a wide variety of people: a young women engaged to be married (but not yet married!), a carpenter, some magi or wise men, and a group of shepherds who…