John van de Laar
@sacredise.bsky.social
Writer, Liturgist, Video Editor, Music Producer, Husband, Dad.
I’m all about Evolutionary Liturgical Christianity.
I’m all about Evolutionary Liturgical Christianity.
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Advent Sunday A on Isaiah 2:1-5': https://bit.ly/47Z48tp
#Advent
#LoveYourEnemies
#Advent
#LoveYourEnemies
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Advent Sunday A on Isaiah 2:1-5': https://bit.ly/47Z48tp
#Advent
#LoveYourEnemies
#Advent
#LoveYourEnemies
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
From 'Living as Advent People': payhip.com/b/a9NKR
Where are you seeing and experiencing resurrection in your life and relationships?
#Advent
#God'sReign
Where are you seeing and experiencing resurrection in your life and relationships?
#Advent
#God'sReign
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From 'Living as Advent People': payhip.com/b/a9NKR
Where are you seeing and experiencing resurrection in your life and relationships?
#Advent
#God'sReign
Where are you seeing and experiencing resurrection in your life and relationships?
#Advent
#God'sReign
Paul was not calling them to wait for Christ’s return, but to live as if it had already happened—to embody in their present lives, the future they were longing for.
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
How can you embody your hoped-for future today?
#God'sReign
#LittleIncarnations
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
How can you embody your hoped-for future today?
#God'sReign
#LittleIncarnations
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Paul was not calling them to wait for Christ’s return, but to live as if it had already happened—to embody in their present lives, the future they were longing for.
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
How can you embody your hoped-for future today?
#God'sReign
#LittleIncarnations
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
How can you embody your hoped-for future today?
#God'sReign
#LittleIncarnations
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Advent Sunday A on Isaiah 2:1-5': https://bit.ly/47Z48tp
#Advent
#ANewWorld
#TheExaminedLife
#Advent
#ANewWorld
#TheExaminedLife
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Advent Sunday A on Isaiah 2:1-5': https://bit.ly/47Z48tp
#Advent
#ANewWorld
#TheExaminedLife
#Advent
#ANewWorld
#TheExaminedLife
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
While the Advent and Christmas Seasons have become for many a time of escape from the world’s suffering and struggles, they are meant to be subversive, prophetic, and transforming.
How can you embrace the prophetic and transformative nature of Advent in your life this year?
https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
How can you embrace the prophetic and transformative nature of Advent in your life this year?
https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
While the Advent and Christmas Seasons have become for many a time of escape from the world’s suffering and struggles, they are meant to be subversive, prophetic, and transforming.
How can you embrace the prophetic and transformative nature of Advent in your life this year?
https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
How can you embrace the prophetic and transformative nature of Advent in your life this year?
https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
Unlike our world, where authority means dominance or greater control over others, the authority of Jesus is about serving others, collaborating with others, and setting others free.
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
#ReignOfChrist
#Service
#Collaboration
#Liberation
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
#ReignOfChrist
#Service
#Collaboration
#Liberation
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Unlike our world, where authority means dominance or greater control over others, the authority of Jesus is about serving others, collaborating with others, and setting others free.
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
#ReignOfChrist
#Service
#Collaboration
#Liberation
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
#ReignOfChrist
#Service
#Collaboration
#Liberation
Waking up then is in itself an act of resistance against anything that dehumanises people and exploits the earth and its non-human inhabitants as expendable commodities.
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
#WakingUp
#Resistance
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
#WakingUp
#Resistance
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Waking up then is in itself an act of resistance against anything that dehumanises people and exploits the earth and its non-human inhabitants as expendable commodities.
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
#WakingUp
#Resistance
From 'Time to Wake Up': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
#WakingUp
#Resistance
From 'Time to Wake up: A Reflection on Romans 13:11-14 for Advent Sunday A': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
#Advent
#WakeUp
#Advent
#WakeUp
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From 'Time to Wake up: A Reflection on Romans 13:11-14 for Advent Sunday A': https://bit.ly/49rzaLH
#Advent
#WakeUp
#Advent
#WakeUp
In times like this, hope can be tough to come by.
Let's pray…
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#ReignOfGod
#ReignOfChristC
Let's pray…
sacredise.com/christ...
#ReignOfGod
#ReignOfChristC
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In times like this, hope can be tough to come by.
Let's pray…
sacredise.com/christ...
#ReignOfGod
#ReignOfChristC
Let's pray…
sacredise.com/christ...
#ReignOfGod
#ReignOfChristC
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
What earth-healing action can you take today?
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
What earth-healing action can you take today?
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
What earth-healing action can you take today?
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
What earth-healing action can you take today?
Advent and Christmas invite us to remember who we really are, what kind of world we want, and how Christ can teach and empower us to become what we long for.
This is what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Check it out: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
This is what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Check it out: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Advent and Christmas invite us to remember who we really are, what kind of world we want, and how Christ can teach and empower us to become what we long for.
This is what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Check it out: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
This is what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Check it out: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From 'A Cosmic Vision of the Reign of Christ': https://bit.ly/49Rm6PM
#ReignOfChrist
#Incarnation
#CosmicChrist
#ReignOfChrist
#Incarnation
#CosmicChrist
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
From 'A Cosmic Vision of the Reign of Christ': https://bit.ly/49Rm6PM
#ReignOfChrist
#Incarnation
#CosmicChrist
#ReignOfChrist
#Incarnation
#CosmicChrist
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Reign of Christ C on Luke 23:33-43': sacredise.substack.c...
#ReignOfChrist
#ReignOfChrist
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Reign of Christ C on Luke 23:33-43': sacredise.substack.c...
#ReignOfChrist
#ReignOfChrist
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
How does science inform your faith, if at all? How comfortable are you to interpret Scripture in the light of what science tells us about the universe?
Here is one example of how I try to do this work: https://bit.ly/49Rm6PM
#FaithAndScience
#Spirituality
Here is one example of how I try to do this work: https://bit.ly/49Rm6PM
#FaithAndScience
#Spirituality
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
How does science inform your faith, if at all? How comfortable are you to interpret Scripture in the light of what science tells us about the universe?
Here is one example of how I try to do this work: https://bit.ly/49Rm6PM
#FaithAndScience
#Spirituality
Here is one example of how I try to do this work: https://bit.ly/49Rm6PM
#FaithAndScience
#Spirituality
In the midst of a world of suffering, our best witness is to reject selfishness and think of others, to reject despair and continue to hope, to reject violence and work for peace, and to reject division and hatred in favour of love for those around us.
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
In the midst of a world of suffering, our best witness is to reject selfishness and think of others, to reject despair and continue to hope, to reject violence and work for peace, and to reject division and hatred in favour of love for those around us.
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
From Daily Worship by Sacredise.com
I can't believe it's that time of year again, but yesterday I recorded my first videos for Advent and Christmas worship! I enjoyed connecting again with the music of these seasons that I love so much.
#Advent
#Christmas
#Advent
#Christmas
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I can't believe it's that time of year again, but yesterday I recorded my first videos for Advent and Christmas worship! I enjoyed connecting again with the music of these seasons that I love so much.
#Advent
#Christmas
#Advent
#Christmas
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We do not need to do grand gestures to contribute to peace and just in our world. We just need to do whatever little things we can to be kind and to connect with those around us.
Let's pray...
#Peacemaking
#Spirituality
Let's pray...
#Peacemaking
#Spirituality
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We do not need to do grand gestures to contribute to peace and just in our world. We just need to do whatever little things we can to be kind and to connect with those around us.
Let's pray...
#Peacemaking
#Spirituality
Let's pray...
#Peacemaking
#Spirituality
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Proper 28C on Luke 21:5-19': https://bit.ly/47zKN1O
#Proper28C
#Witnesses
#NavigatingChaos
#Proper28C
#Witnesses
#NavigatingChaos
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From 'Lectionary Reflection for Proper 28C on Luke 21:5-19': https://bit.ly/47zKN1O
#Proper28C
#Witnesses
#NavigatingChaos
#Proper28C
#Witnesses
#NavigatingChaos
Often our capacity to sustain hope, peace, joy, and love is determined by events around us. But a healthy spiritual practice helps us to sustain these qualities even in the midst of turmoil.
That's what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Learn more: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
That's what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Learn more: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Often our capacity to sustain hope, peace, joy, and love is determined by events around us. But a healthy spiritual practice helps us to sustain these qualities even in the midst of turmoil.
That's what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Learn more: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
That's what 'Living as Advent People' is about.
Learn more: payhip.com/b/a9NKR
#Advent
#Christmas
Rather, our greatest impact will be in living lives of gentle and quiet grace, compassion, generosity, and faithfulness.
From 'The Quiet Life of Saints': https://bit.ly/43Xr1ea
#Saints
#Simplicity
#Quietness
From 'The Quiet Life of Saints': https://bit.ly/43Xr1ea
#Saints
#Simplicity
#Quietness
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Rather, our greatest impact will be in living lives of gentle and quiet grace, compassion, generosity, and faithfulness.
From 'The Quiet Life of Saints': https://bit.ly/43Xr1ea
#Saints
#Simplicity
#Quietness
From 'The Quiet Life of Saints': https://bit.ly/43Xr1ea
#Saints
#Simplicity
#Quietness