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Hope College Christmas Vespers 2009

A prayer given at Hope College’s Christmas Vespers service, December 2009 in Holland, MI. God of True light from True light, In the beginning you spoke a Word to create reality. A reality composed and conditioned in grace. But this reality shattered when your Word…
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December 10, 2009
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Hope College Christmas Vespers 2008

A prayer given at Hope College’s Christmas Vespers service, December 2008 in Holland, MI. God of Immanuel, We gather in this hour because long ago you made a promise to send a Light into our darkness - This is a promise you kept. Long ago the world…
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December 11, 2008
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Hope College Christmas Vespers 2007

A prayer given at Hope College’s Christmas Vespers service, December 2007 in Holland, MI. God of eternal light, we gather this evening, in this storied sanctuary, old and young, Family and friends, neighbors and strangers, where so many have sung before, not out of tradition, but…
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December 14, 2007
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Hope College Christmas Vespers 2006

A prayer given at Hope College’s Christmas Vespers service, December 2006 in Holland, MI. God, Revelation, in the beginning you hovered over chaos and, from your imagination, spoke a Word to form reality: a Word voiced from the deep primordial darkness that was to set…
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December 15, 2006
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Hope College Christmas Vespers 2005

A prayer given at Hope College's Christmas Vespers service, December 2005 in Holland, MI. Eternal God, Tonight, In this moment, In this place, With open hearts of anticipation, In the silence between notes Of your coming, We sing hallelujah! We sing hallelujah for even as you…
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December 10, 2005