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The Earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof - Psalm 24

Why aren't conservatives conservationists? They may be coming around.

Early next year environmental scientists, who have been campaigning fruitlessly to persuade the administration of US President George W. Bush to take global warming more seriously, hope to gain a very influential source of support.

The National Association of Evangelicals, the largest organisation of "born-again" Christians in the US, is circulating among its leadership a draft policy statement that would demand strong action against the causes of climate change.
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Landing Place

Thanks to all who made the advent gathering last night at our place. We are truly rich in community.

From Robert Webber’s Ancient-Future Time:

Advent is a time when we ask, even plead with God not to leave us alone, for when God leaves us to our own choices and turns us over to our own ways, we are certain to drift from him. Our indifference to God is soon turned into spiritual boredom, a boredom that leads to spiritual inertia and ultimate death to spiritual realities. Advent is a time to cry, “O God, turn me away from my indifference, create in me a heart of repentence, and lead me to the waters of spiritual refreshment.”
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Advent is not only about our repentence and conversion, it is also about the expectation of the Messiah who will come to deliver us. During Advent we look for the coming of the Messiah in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2-4) and the coming of the Messiah at the end of history (Isaiah 65:17-25; Revelation 20-22). For Christians both of these Advents are rooted in the paschal mystery. The cross is the goal of the Messiah’s coming. Incarnation and atonement are inseparably linked as are the atonement and the second coming because he came to redeem and rescue creatures and creation. He came to reclaim the creation, to wrest it away from the clutches of evil, to rid it of the presence and power of evil, and to ultimately restore it to a new heavens and a new earth.

In Advent we celebrate the beginning and ending of Christ’s victory over the powers of evil, and we call upon God to accomplish that victory in our own lives, to break in on us, to be born in our hearts, and to create us anew. This is the message of Isaiah to us: a Savior is coming not only to Israel but to the whole world. p. 43-44

My post yesterday was reguarding the sacrifice of a few humanitarian youth type... but both young and old are risking their lives waging peace. my friends amy and phil have some important posts re: the capture of a Christian Peacemaking Team in Iraq.