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- Advent 📅⏳🕯️Advent is the season before Christmas when Christians take four weeks to get ready for the celebration of Jesus’ birth. It’s about waiting with hope, thinking about peace, finding joy, and practicing love. People mark the weeks with candles, prayers, or special traditions, but at its heart(...) Read More
- Apostle, Jewish (יִשְׁלַח / shalach)
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- Apostle, secular (ἀπόστολος)
- Aroma of GodJust as the smell of a good meal rises and fills the air—drawing people in with delight—our lives, when aligned with God’s heart, rise toward Him as something beautiful, sensed, and pleasing. Scripture uses this image to describe worship, sacrifice, and the way Christ’s love spreads through(...) Read More
Footnotes:
- 1M‘Hardy, G. (1906). Advent. In J. Hastings (Ed.), A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels: Aaron–Zion (Vol. 1, p. 32). T&T Clark; Charles Scribner’s Sons
- 2Koelner, R. Y. (2022). Paul’s Letter to Titus: His Emissary to Crete, about Congregational Life (p. 22). Lederer Books: An Imprint of Messianic Jewish Publishers.
- 31 Joe Rigney, Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020), 49–50, 73–75.