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Article: Third Sunday in Advent: December 17, 2006.(Preaching Helps)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
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- October 1, 2006
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Zephaniah 3:14-20 or Isaiah 12:2-6
Philippians 4:4-7
Luke 3:7-18
First Reading
Zephaniah and Paul seem to lead preachers toward the comfortable and familiar and away from the difficulties of our Gospel text. Paul's words of rejoicing, echoing in camp songs and Sunday school lessons of the congregation's psyche, seem to be a refuge from the radical discipleship and judgment of Luke's John the Baptist. At first glance, Zephaniah seems to support Paul, with words of vindication for the people and joy at restoration. But there is more in these texts than this surface reading. They have much in common with the Gospel text.
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... ... again version of 'believing in Jesus,' Christ himself was reborn ... Holy Spirit, and to allow 'Jesus' to function as an umbrella ... stressed the first clause: God so loved the world that he gave ... of John 3:16: believe in Jesus and you will not perish but ...
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