Hark! Listening for the Surprises of Advent (Presbyterian Outlook)

Remember when we were children, and it seemed like Christmas would never come? Should we even wish, somehow, to get back to our sense of childhood anticipation and wonder? Or is that just not the way of the spiritually seasoned adult? What new thing can be said?
Name: Hark! Listening for the Surprises of Advent (Presbyterian Outlook)
Course Number: THAPH 026 (PRSOL)
Course Time: On Demand
Course ID: 00504
Course Days: On Demand
Notes: Cost: $29.95
Cynthia Rigby

Source: Presbyterian Outlook

This on-demand webinar is devoted to inviting us, again, into the surprises and wonders of Christmas. How do we listen afresh to a story we have long known by heart? What is it that surprises us? What content of the message can spiral us into wonderment? How are we surprised – and then changed – in ways that lean into showing love to the world?

Some of the things we will be surprised by are: the requirement of repentance (what does that look like in our world, in 2015?), the scandalous character of the cross (really? The Word became flesh in one particular individual?), and the promise that, somehow, meeting the babe-born-of-Mary will fill us again with the first love we had for God.

This webinar was lead by Cynthia Rigby. Prof. Rigby is professor of theology at Austin Theological Seminary. She is the author of “The Promotion of Social Righteousness” and co-author of “Blessed One: Protestant Perspectives on Mary.”

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