Some people recognize these words as a table prayer. Others might consider these words to be an invitation for divine intervention. When the days are dark and the nights are long, when isolation ...

Happy (real) new year: the beginning of a new year of grace, which began Dec. 3 with the First Sunday of Advent. “The holidays” so overwhelm our senses each December that it’s hard to remember that ...

Sunday, Dec. 19, is the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Mass Readings: Micah 5:1-4a; Psalm 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19; Hebrews 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-45. On the Fourth Sunday of Advent we do well to ponder what is ...

Come Lord Jesus be our guest and let these gifts to us be blessed. Amen. It’s a simple prayer that most Christians know, whereby we ask Jesus to be present at our meal, in our homes and in our lives.

Prepare for the second coming of Christ, exhorts Piper (Let the Nations Be Glad!), chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary, in this dense exegesis. The purpose of the second coming, the author ...

Growing up, many young children learn the words to the common table prayer, "Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let these gifts to us be blessed, Amen."... The Calvary Lutheran Church Advent Festival ...