You can find the "Following the Star" Advent devotionals here. You are welcome to add your own reflections or prayers with the "comment" button.
Most of the time, I think, we emphasize one or the other. We either focus on peace and compassion, or we focus on righteousness. But peace and compassion without righteousness is merely sentiment, and to me, seems like it has no strenghth to withstand evil. Righteousness without compassion becomes judgemental self-righteousness, and excludes anyone who doesn't measure up.
Yet in Jesus we find both, the embracing warmth of compassion and the purifying fire of righteousness. It is the only context in which true peace, true shalom, can occur.
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