Suzie Lind - In the fourth week of Advent we explore the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth and the ways God met each of them in their need.

Suzie Lind - Paul tells the Ephesians how he has been praying for them to grow in their experiential knowledge of God.

Suzie Lind - Spiritual formation is commonly limited to the practices that grow our individual relationships with God. Today we consider the end of formation is to actually cultivate a more faithful community.

Suzie Lind - Jesus enters Jerusalem one last time on the day we call Palm Sunday. While the crowds celebrate with joy, Jesus weeps with grief.

Suzie Lind - Advent invites us to notice the ways in which Christ comes in our present day.

Every Advent since Jesus’s birth, humans have had to live in the tension of the reality of “God with us” and what’s also true about the world.

Suzie Lind - On this first week of Advent (“coming” or “arrival), we reach back to study the historical significance of Christ’s Incarnation, it’s significance for us in the darkness of these days, and how we can wait with hopeful anticipation for his return.