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    Canadian Baptist Advent Reader 2013
    Canadian Baptist Advent Reader 2013
    Canadian Baptist Advent Reader 2013
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    Canadian Baptist Advent Reader 2013

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    24 meditations on the Christmas story by members of the Canadian Baptist family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanadian Baptists
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    ISBN9781310062162
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      Canadian Baptist Advent Reader 2013 - Canadian Baptists

      introduction

      One of the supreme delights and frustrations of Scripture is its episodic nature. It is not packaged as a tidy systematic theology, nor an encyclopedia of world history, nor a lofty treatise of abstract ideals. It was not penned in gold and found in a cave, ready for distribution. Instead, Holy Scripture was written by a broad community of people over thousands of years in a staggering array of literary styles: specific writers inspired to write into specific circumstances.

      The book in your hands or on your screen is not Holy Writ. But the episodic nature of its genesis is similar. Advent 2013 is upon us, a time of expectant waiting for the Child. At the same time, the pace of life for many of us is blistering. In the middle of this cacophony, we’ve asked two dozen Canadian writers, pastors and artists to convey the meaning of this season into our circumstances, here and now.

      What I find most remarkable about this Reader is the way individual reflections cluster around specific themes. While we suggested topics, authors were free to choose their own, and many wrote on strikingly similar ones. Nearly a half-dozen writers explored the person of Mary, several lingered over Herod, others extolled God’s capacity to mend brokenness. Shepherds and angels are barely noticed. Rather than minimize this overlap, we’ve heightened it by grouping similar articles together. These themes may be precisely the ones God wants us to pay attention to this year.

      C.S. Lewis once observed, How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. You will see that glorious diversity in what you are about to read—from a 9-year-old girl in Nova Scotia, to a theologian in Quebec City; from a pastor in Winnipeg to a family living among refugees in Nairobi, Kenya. This year’s Advent Reader is the first national publication Canadian Baptists have created in many years, and represents a vibrant display of church unity across a geographically and culturally scattered country.

      Special thanks go those who helped coordinate this effort: Andrew Myers, Ceal McLean, Jennifer Lau and David Rowley who identified capable writers across our country; Annalese Racheter and Kelsey Martin who carefully edited and reviewed the text; Tim McCoy who gave birth to this vision two years ago.

      This December, stores are unfurling their sale banners, travel plans are being made and churches are ramping up for ‘busy season.’ Somewhere in the middle of it all is the small cry of an infant poked by straw in a feeding trough. May this Advent Reader enliven your preparations for Christmas, provoke you to prayer, and dare you to respond to that small cry.

      Jacob Buurma

      Advent Reader Editor

      Victoria, British Columbia

      people who walked in darkness

      DECEMBER 1

      As I sat very still in the examining chair, the nurse removed the bandages from my eye, and held up her fingers. It was an electric moment—the stuff of movies. You expect to shriek with excitement: I can see! The nurse asked, How many fingers do you see? I peered with expectant intensity, but only saw a dull fog. I whispered, I can’t see anything. The alarm bells which had been droning in the background rose wildly in intensity and volume.

      The day before, the ophthalmologist had hurried me to the operating theatre at the Ivey Eye Institute in London, Ontario, to repair a detached retina. A dark impenetrable curtain had descended upon my left eye. Without the operation, he had said, I would be permanently blind in that eye. There are many who live with blindness, with seriously impaired vision, or with only one eye. Sometimes we may lose something vital as it is eroded by age or crushed by an accident. And these losses are so much a part of our human experience. Where does faith come to play in these difficult moments?

      There is an old and debated saying, There are no atheists in foxholes. Is it true? Do people suddenly become believers when life and limb are threatened? Could it be that in moments of sheer panic, even unbelievers turn to the Living God (or any god) to

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