{"id":1444,"date":"2009-11-13T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2009-11-13T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T00:33:12","slug":"advent-start-a-new-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/advent-start-a-new-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent (start a new Ancient tradition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-296\" href=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/31\/mosaic-bible\/bible\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" title=\"bible\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/bible.jpg\" alt=\"bible\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bible-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As some of you know, I have been involved in the Tyndale Publishing, New living Translation, project: <em>Holy Bible: Mosaic<\/em>, through contributing a meditation on the Trinity called, Anointing\u00a0<em>Oil <\/em>(pg. 264).<\/p>\n<p>We are soon\u00a0approaching\u00a0the <span style=\"color:#800000;\">Season of\u00a0Adven<\/span><span style=\"color:#800000;\">t<\/span>. Many of us in the Evangelical tradition have not experienced the richness of joining with so many Christians around the world who worship and enjoy God by observing the Christian calendar year. This begins at Advent, the first week in December, and in 2009, begins Nov. 29th. This is a time when we focus on God&#8217;s redemptive plan for us, and anticipate\u00a0the birth of the Incarnation, the coming King, Jesus the Christ. (This calendar continues to other major events in God&#8217;s redemptive plan\u2013including\u00a0Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Pentecost.)<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Holy Bible: Mosaic <\/em>begins weekly thought-provoking meditations at Advent, but Tyndale also provides a special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holybiblemosaic.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=frontpage&amp;Itemid=2\">Advent sampler<\/a> of the first four mediations from the Mosaic Bible that make a thoughtful early Christmas card or gift, (and are small enough to fit in a envelope.) Another nice thing is that this Advent sampler it&#8217;s only $1.99!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will consider the celebration of Advent in your worship this year, especially if you haven&#8217;t in the past.<\/p>\n<p>More interesting, in-depth info on Advent available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crivoice.org\/cyadvent.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you to <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastors.com\/blogs\/ministrytoolbox\/pages\/issue-400.aspx\"><strong>Rick Warren (Ministry Toolbox),<\/strong><\/a><strong> and to New Testament scholar, and author of <\/strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/the-jesus-creed-loving-god-loving-others.html\"><strong>The Jesus Creed<\/strong><\/a><\/em><strong>, Scot <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/the-mosaic-bible.html\"><strong>McKnight<\/strong><\/a><strong> who have been so positive in their support of this NLT Bible\u2013a new tool to dive deeper toward the heart of God through this special presentation of God&#8217;s Word\u2013adjacent to weekly God-centered meditations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will be doing a weekly reflection on the Holy Bible: Mosaic meditation of the week here, as we journey together.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating Advent Season for the first time in a most transforming way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,76],"tags":[153,6,686,688,19,36,41,46,2174,60,2882,2988,68,6539,3396,3430,3540,91],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spirituality","tag-advent","tag-bible","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-card","tag-devotions","tag-holy-bible-mosaic","tag-jesus","tag-life-as-prayer-update","tag-meditations","tag-prayer","tag-rick-warren","tag-scot-mcknight","tag-scriptures","tag-spirituality","tag-the-jesus-creed","tag-thoughts-on-god","tag-tyndale","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}