Click on the image to the right to see the Advent Doodle for Saturday, December 24. For the last seven years, I have put up an online Advent calendar during the season of Advent. It featured pictures suitable for the season, matched with passages of Scripture. This year, I’m doing an online Advent Calendar once again, but with some exciting new content. I am using Advent Doodles by my wife, Linda. She has a unique ministry of doodling, combining her... Read more
Click on the image to the right to see the Advent Doodle for Friday, December 23. For the last seven years, I have put up an online Advent calendar during the season of Advent. It featured pictures suitable for the season, matched with passages of Scripture. This year, I’m doing an online Advent Calendar once again, but with some exciting new content. I am using Advent Doodles by my wife, Linda. She has a unique ministry of doodling, combining her... Read more
Part 14 of series: Christmas According to Dickens What Changed Ebenezer Scrooge? What Changes Us? (Part 2) Yesterday, I began to gather together the strands of this series and weave some conclusions about what transforms us. I suggested that: • Transformation begins when something interrupts our ordinary experience. • Transformation comes through pain. • Transformation comes through children. Today, I want to add to further reflections on what changes us. Transformation is a result of seeing with a fresh perspective.... Read more
Click on the image to the right to see the Advent Doodle for Thursday, December 22. For the last seven years, I have put up an online Advent calendar during the season of Advent. It featured pictures suitable for the season, matched with passages of Scripture. This year, I’m doing an online Advent Calendar once again, but with some exciting new content. I am using Advent Doodles by my wife, Linda. She has a unique ministry of doodling, combining her... Read more
Part 13 of series: Christmas According to Dickens What Changed Ebenezer Scrooge? What Changes Us? I’m finally ready to answer the question that has guided much of this series on A Christmas Carol: Why did Ebenezer Scrooge change? Today I want to sum up what we’ve discovered and make some connections to our own experience. Transformation begins when something interrupts our ordinary experience. For at least a couple dozen years, Ebenezer Scrooge had been a committed grouch, miser, and Christmas-hater.... Read more
Click on the image to the right to see the Advent Doodle for Wednesday, December 21. For the last seven years, I have put up an online Advent calendar during the season of Advent. It featured pictures suitable for the season, matched with passages of Scripture. This year, I’m doing an online Advent Calendar once again, but with some exciting new content. I am using Advent Doodles by my wife, Linda. She has a unique ministry of doodling, combining her... Read more
Part 12 of series: Christmas According to Dickens Evidence of Scrooge’s Changed Life: Stave V When we left Ebenezer Scrooge in my last post of this series, he had come to the end of the visits by the Spirits of Christmas past, present, and future. In response to these visits, he promised to be a changed man: “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present,... Read more
Click on the image to the right to see the Advent Doodle for Tuesday, December 20. For the last seven years, I have put up an online Advent calendar during the season of Advent. It featured pictures suitable for the season, matched with passages of Scripture. This year, I’m doing an online Advent Calendar once again, but with some exciting new content. I am using Advent Doodles by my wife, Linda. She has a unique ministry of doodling, combining her... Read more
Part 11 of series: Christmas According to Dickens Why Did Ebenezer Scrooge Change? Stave IV The final Spirit to visit Ebenezer Scrooge is the “Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come” or simply the “Ghost of the Future.” This silent Spirit, shrouded in black, takes the mythic form of death. Not surprisingly, the visions it reveals to Scrooge also focus upon death and its meaning. The largest portion of Stave IV, which is shorter than Staves II and III, describes various... Read more
Click on the image to the right to see the Advent Doodle for Monday, December 19. For the last seven years, I have put up an online Advent calendar during the season of Advent. It featured pictures suitable for the season, matched with passages of Scripture. This year, I’m doing an online Advent Calendar once again, but with some exciting new content. I am using Advent Doodles by my wife, Linda. She has a unique ministry of doodling, combining her... Read more
Mark D. Roberts
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