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For the next four weeks, I'm going to be reflecting on the season of Advent in my daily devotions--extending the conversation from the sermons I'm preaching each week on how to: Give More, Spend Less, Worship Fully and Love All. On a trip that included a stop in Denmark, I bought an awesome watch made by the Danish company Skagen. I loved that watch. It looked cool on my wrist. I felt like it made me look like a well-travelled, debonair man of the world. And then one day someone stole the watch out of my duffle bag at the gym. I left it in a locker only for a few moments while I was showering, but that's all it took. My cool Danish watch was gone forever. I no longer felt debonair. We've all had those moments when we've lost our possessions or had them taken from us. Sometimes it happens in epic fashion. I've had some recent conversations with people who lost everything in the floods that rose...