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Andrew Comiskey

Declare Your Ground: Advent of Integration 2

‘If you don’t stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all’ (Is. 7:9). Christian, never apologize for upholding persons in their...

Andrew Comiskey

Coming Together: Advent of Integration 1

‘It is time to wake up from sleep’ (Romans 13:11). Wake up. Welcome the wholeness that is yours. Receive it. Lay hold of it. At the dawn...

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Revisiting Joy

By Katie Comiskey The joy of Advent is often lost on me. As one prone to melancholy, I dwell more on disappointment than victories....

Andrew Comiskey

Joyful Decrease

‘One is coming mightier than I…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire’ (Lk. 3:16). ‘He must increase; I must decrease’ (Jn....

Andrew Comiskey

Actively Waiting

‘Advent is the time of the promise, not the fulfillment.’ Fr. Alfred Delp Adele fever is back. Her new album ‘30’ is selling faster than...

Andrew Comiskey

Transforming Fear

Jesus is coming and He’s mad. Today’s Advent Gospel (Lk. 21:25-28; 34-36) rouses us, not with carols but a swift kick. The Son of...

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Day 28: Carrying Her Cross

By Katie Comiskey Kansas City Living Waters Leader The Lord has met me in my brokenness in myriad ways: at His Cross, through His people,...

Marco Casanova

Festive Refinement

“Rejoice!” (Phil 4:4) Today is known as “Gaudete Sunday” (Gaudete--Latin “rejoice”). We set a fire to the lone rose-colored candle. The...

Annette Comiskey

Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord

I was a high school senior in 1974 and our church youth group was obsessed with the Broadway show Godspell, a then hip, countercultural...