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  This may seem unChristmaslike for an Advent post, but not really. God interrupts our lives. Some people do go on quests for God, but just as many or more just meet Him unexpectantly.  My husband says he wanted to become a Jew before he became a Christian, and before that he had read about Buddhism and other religions. He was somewhat older than me at his conversion (well, 22 or 23 compared to my 15 years) and in the military. He read books and explored other faiths. "I don't have any imagination in that way," I said. God just walked into my consciousness, convicted me of my need of Him, and sent someone to help. No journey, really, at least none I was aware of.  I fit Tim Keller's description here.  Of course, there is always a deep and intriguing back story we don't know about .... Advent is the same. A baby is born. It happens all the time. But the back story! An eternity before that birth, thousands of characters, richness and sorrow and joy and want.  The ...

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  https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-time-machine/ I recommend this short essay by Russell Moore. Its title might make you think one thing when it's really about the timelessness of God, and that term in itself if wrong or incomplete. God created time but is not bound or defined by it in any way. He is past present future; Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, as Hebrews states.  The essay is thought-provoking and reminds me why I love Russell and his writing. My tendency to say "stay out of politics if your mission is the gospel" hits a wall with him sometimes. He is a huge Trump critic, but I would be a hypocrite to not own that myself despite my goal to spread the good news. He just has a bigger platform and thus more critics.  In the essay he states that he and Beth Moore (they always say "no relation"--it's her husband's name anyway) agreed on what moment in the Bible they would want to back to if ...