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Read more about the article Love Entered In

Love Entered In

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 24, 2022
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When I don’t understand someone, and when I can’t get them to understand me, I tend to move away. I judge and worry and retreat. I give up on the…

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Read more about the article God Enters Into the Messiness of a Broken World

God Enters Into the Messiness of a Broken World

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 23, 2022
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The family of God is a family with sex scandals and petty infighting and alcoholism and abuse. With disease and suffering and betrayal. With rejection and heartbreak and violence. The…

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Jesus Came From a Dysfunctional Family Too

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 22, 2022
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Jesus came from a dysfunctional family. I wrote those words for the first time a few years ago, and I remind myself of them every year around this time. The…

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Why Do We Know So Much About Mary?

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 19, 2022
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Why do we know so much about Mary, the mother of Jesus? Why do we still have a record of this young, poor, Jewish woman from 2,000 years ago? We…

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The Infinite Became Finite

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 12, 2022
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I read an essay about math (of all things!) in the New Yorker a few months ago that made me all the more grateful for what happened at Christmas. Let…

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Read more about the article Am I Willing to Be Interrupted by God’s Work of Love in the World?

Am I Willing to Be Interrupted by God’s Work of Love in the World?

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:December 7, 2022
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Jesus’ birth was only noticed by the outsiders. The Magi, non-Israelite foreigners who worshiped a distant god, nevertheless paid attention to the star in the east and came to find…

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Read more about the article Order Your Advent Devotional Today!

Order Your Advent Devotional Today!

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:October 13, 2022
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Is anyone else out there in a season of waiting? Waiting for healing? Waiting for change? Waiting for your child to get news about college? I’m in a season of…

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Read more about the article Still Time to Join Me This Advent Season!
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Still Time to Join Me This Advent Season!

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:November 29, 2021
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If you are still looking for a way to prepare spiritually for Christmas this year, you can still order Prepare Him Room (order here) and get it in time to start…

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Read more about the article Reflection Questions to Accompany Advent Devotional

Reflection Questions to Accompany Advent Devotional

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:November 11, 2021
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We are already making plans for Christmas. The kids have given me their gift lists, via Google docs, with hyperlinks. The girls have started working on a dance to the…

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Advent Devotional: Prepare Him Room

  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker
  • Post published:October 20, 2021
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I love the spiritual side of Christmas. I’d love to offer you a way to remember and reflect on the spiritual side of Christmas this year too. (I know it’s…

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