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John 1:1-15: Christmas Day – Home
“Are you going home for Christmas?” What question has been more commonplace in recent weeks? Some while ago in December I was at the grocery store and as I walked through the store, I heard some version of that very question over and over. A cashier glanced over to a bagger, “So, you going […]
Luke 21:28-38: At That Time – Advent 1C
[…] be funny or off-beat. Some years ago comedian Bill Murray starred in a movie that was one of the many, many take-offs from Charles Dickens’ story A Christmas Carol. Murray was the Scrooge figure in the film as he played a hard-nosed television executive who disliked everything about Christmas except for the fact that […]
Luke 1:26-38
Advent 4B
[…] that something very new, very striking, and quite possibly very wonderful is about to happen. And it is! Questions to Ponder / Issues to Address: What does Christmas mean? Well, to some folks in our world Christmas is all about bringing people together again, especially those who have maybe become estranged for some reason. […]
Galatians 4:4-7
Christmas 1B
[…] wait. In fact, nearly every year at Christmastime my wife and I have a quiet debate about waiting. It’s not about how long to wait to buy Christmas presents or put up our Christmas tree. Our annual holiday debate centers on how long we should wait to begin to sing Christmas carols. My wife […]
Matthew 1:18-25: God With You – Advent 4A
[…] will later memorably write in Romans 8, if God is for us, then who could ever be against us!? This is what we need to know at Christmas and at all times. We need to know that God is with us and God is for us; that God is with us and for us […]
Zephaniah 3:14-20
Advent 3C
[…] prepare a place for you.” He goes to prepare a home for us. A home! It is a tired truth but a real truth nonetheless that the Christmas season has become clogged and clotted with saccharine sentimentality, with more vapid forced coziness than you could shake a stick at. All true. And some of […]
Zephaniah 3:14-20
Advent 3C
[…] prepare a place for you.” He goes to prepare a home for us. A home! It is a tired truth but a real truth nonetheless that the Christmas season has become clogged and clotted with saccharine sentimentality, with more vapid forced coziness than you could shake a stick at. All true. And some of […]
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24
Advent 3B
[…] this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus”), and play with the Greek word thelema a bit, we could preach on the whole text as “God’s Christmas List.” Our children spend a great deal of time making a list of all the things they want for Christmas. Well, our text shows us exactly […]
Luke 3:1-20: The Shrill One – Advent 2C
[…] a litany of then-current political leaders. But at least with Luke 2 we have the advantage of having heard “Quirinius” pronounced at any number of Sunday School Christmas programs over the years. Luke 3 is far less familiar, throwing in names like “Traconitis” and “Lysanius” among others. All in all, it’s a pretty elaborate […]
Jeremiah 31:7-14
Christmas 2B
It takes so long for Christmas to get here. We wait and wait through the long season of Advent for the coming of the Lord. Then in one day we celebrated his coming, and we’re done. No wonder many non-liturgical Christians simply ignore Advent and spend a month celebrating Christmas. Such a miraculous event […]
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