Alvin Brown, Author at Mosaic Church Fort Worth

Prayers to Come Home for Christmas.

Hi everyone!

In this season of Advent, we celebrate the anticipation of the arrival, and the coming of Jesus through prayer, song, devotionals, and the reading of God’s Word.

One of the mainstays throughout our celebration has been the lighting of candles on the Advent wreath.

Each candle represents a virtue of God — hope, love, joy, and peace — while symbolizing, and embodying the heart and meaning of the season: the light of Christ Jesus is center and luminous for all the world to experience.

And each week during our time of prayer together, we believed for the following to be realized:

Know Jesus, Know Peace.

Hi everyone!

As we approach the final Sunday in this season of Advent, I pray that we’re all reminded of what the birth of Jesus brings our hearts and our world the most in their darkest of dark moments: peace.

As we count down the days til’ Christmas and even a new year that’s ahead of us, an unfortunate truth is that fear steals the good tidings of great joy in the hearts of many.

Fear lurks about the heart as a constant daily battle, and can more so be the case during the Christmas holiday. The fear of busyness, and all the things to do at work or home by year-end. The fear of finances running short. The fear of spending the holidays alone. The fear of losing a job, or most devastating, the fear of losing a loved one or friend.

Oh, and let us not forget the debilitating fear of the uncertainty and unknown that each day, hour, minute, or second poses.

Before long, if we’re not careful, we could find our hearts growing cynical and our heart’s light for Jesus dimming, if not completely snuffed out.

Our hearts then wandered far from His peace, spiritually shattered and splintered into pieces and on full display for the world to gawk at and see.

So what is the antidote to all this fear, you ask?

Tonight’s Prayer for Glorious Light.

Hi everyone!

As we approach week three in this season of Advent, I was reminded of how the world can truly be a dark place to call home at times — and it seems to grow darker by the day by some accounts.

In fact, as I read, studied, and meditated upon the entire passage of Isaiah 60 yesterday in preparation for tonight’s prayer call, my phone buzzed with a puzzling headline notification that served as a reminder:

For A Brief Moment Today, 90 Percent Of Humanity Will Be Engulfed In Darkness.

The headline referenced that nearly 9 in 10 people, due to the world’s population density, could look up and see a sky that is completely dark — a moment of maximum darkness.

Wow! Talk about notification of double entendre as I was simultaneously reading verses 1-3 of Isaiah 60:

Prayer for the Season of Advent.

Hi everyone!

I hope all of you had a blessed Thanksgiving holiday, giving thanks and eating just enough.

I also hope everyone made good memories while expressing gratitude to God for family and friends.

Kicking off the holiday season — the parades of lights, decorations, gifts, events, music, and much more — can be a good time for some and a not-so-good time for others due to a variety of reasons and life experiences.

But no matter where we find ourselves on the spectrum of the holiday season being good or not so good, our hearts can not only be encouraged by the glimmer and twinkle of Christmas light shows but more importantly, transformed by the Light of all lights that the world can’t extinguish — the celebration and arrival of the season of Advent.

What does the season of Advent consist of, you ask?

In Gratitude, Great is God’s Faithfulness.

Hi everyone!

Only a few hours til’ Thanksgiving, yet we’re looking forward to everyone joining us this Sunday, November 27th at 5 PM for dinner. See you there!

Mallary and I missed praying with you all last week but shared a wonderful two days and dinner with our Plant Fort Worth Cohort — more on this in the next newsletter (or tonight for those that join!).

But on this Thanksgiving Eve, in a world full of deals — pre, black, gray, cyber, small biz Saturday, non-profit Tuesday, and the list goes on — it’s quite easy to be distracted, right?

Let’s admit it. We’re all enticed, distracted from one deal to the next.

Buzz, buzz goes the phone or email notifications with a deal we’re told we simply can’t live without.

Yet as we all know and come to learn in time, every deal has a shelf life.

Whether we want it to or not, whether we believe it or not, each deal has an expiration date — a limit and expiration purposely built into the deal!

Alvin Brown

Prayers to Come Home for Christmas.

Know Jesus, Know Peace.

Tonight’s Prayer for Glorious Light.

Prayer for the Season of Advent.

In Gratitude, Great is God’s Faithfulness.

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