I have some vivid memories from our time in Nigeria. Since we served at theological institutions (first Smith Bible College and then Veenstra Theological Seminary) we always had vibrant communities around us. We experienced the blessing of that community in many ways.
Advent arrived quietly this year, like dawn edging its way across the horizon, slow, pale, insistent. In the midst of the flurry of life (both snowy and metaphorical), I almost missed it, this season that resists hurry. This season that asks us to linger in the waiting.
To our bewilderment, Scripture sometimes contains paradoxes on topics. For example, the Apostle Paul writes, “For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law (Rom.
