We can't continue the momentum in the direction we're going.

We've got to learn to pray.

God help us.

Don't capitulate the evil.

Don't give in it in your home, in your life, in your heart.

Stop curtsying the evil.

I'm ashamed. They told us to retreat from the public square.

And we very demurely said, okay, never again. We cannot. What do you mean we're non-essential?

We may not be essential to you, but we have an essential purpose.

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Be blessed.

It's the second weekend of Advent, the four Sundays that precede Christmas Day, are celebrated

by God's people throughout the earth as a part of the Advent season, the first season

of the Christian calendar.

It's a time of waiting for the arrival of Christ and now for his second arrival in the earth, the

Perusia.

Week two is typically about peace and preparation.

If you're lighting an Advent wreath and the candles on that Advent wreath, the second

candle is sometimes referred to as the Bethlehem candle,

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