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Praying through Advent with the Northern Baptist Learning Community

Throughout Advent we will be posting readings, prayers and a thought for each day.

Join us and take time to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus by reading scripture and praying together with our dispersed learning community.

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Come, Lord God, change us and we shall be changed.
Come, increase our awareness of your presence.
Come, strengthen our love for you.
Come, fill our hearts with holiness.
Come, awaken us to be ready and watchful for your coming.
Come, Lord God, change us and we shall be changed; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

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(David Adam, Glimpses of Glory: Prayers for the Church Year (Year C) London: SPCK, 2000, p.5)

Monday 30 November

Numbers 17:1-11

2 Peter 3:1-18

Advent is traditionally a time of preparation – a time of active waiting. Both these passages have a hint of frustration about them as the people of God wait for God to act.

In Numbers the blossoming rod will be a sign of God’s commissioning of Aaron.  What are these signs for us today?

How do you hear the challenge to “strive to be found by him at peace…”?  (2Peter 3:14)

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Monday

Pray for:

  • your own local church, its ministers and leaders
  • NBLC in its work in ministerial training and development, Ministers in Training and their placement churches.

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And in the new year you might be interested in this:

After Christendom Seminars and the launch of Worship and Mission after Christendom

Glen will be one of the speakers at the Northern seminar at Harehills Baptist Church, Leeds on Saturday 9 January 2010.  Full details of the event and details of how to book a place may be found here>>>

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Northern Baptist Learning Community
working in partnership with the
Baptist Union of Great Britain
East Midland, Heart of England, Northern, North West and Yorkshire Baptist Associations
Luther King House Educational Trust
Southern North West Training Partnership
Registered Company No 573403 : Registered Charity No 1108216

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