1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Christmas 1C
[…] you build a helpful Gospel centered sermon on this gerrymandered bit of fluff? Why in the world would the RCL land here for this first Sunday after Christmas? I mean, the first Sunday after Christmas is a bit of a downer anyway. What is there to say after the celebration of God entering history […]
Colossians 3:12-17
Christmas 1C
[…] to think farther back than the course of this past month to remember how often children needed someone to prompt them to thank those who’d given them Christmas gifts. Yet this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson strongly suggests that it isn’t just children who need frequent reminders to be thankful. Paul and Timothy feel the Spirit’s […]
Psalm 147:12-20
Christmas 2A
Christmas (Special Days); God the Father (Trinity and Incarnation); Creation (Theological Topics); Providence (Theological Topics)
Jeremiah 33:14-16
Advent 1C
[…] things, nevertheless proclaim words of hope. But then, aren’t those precisely the situations where one needs to find hope? As we begin to celebrate Advent and then Christmas once again, we know full well that not all the forced Christmas “cheer” in the world can cover up or finally compensate for the gloominess and […]
Matthew 2:13-23
Christmas 1A
[…] social media. The cries of those under the altar rings out, for the killing of innocents has not ceased. We hold the same already-and-not-yet tension in the Christmas season that marked Advent. Here we thought we might get to turn a new leaf with the start of new calendar year, but the facts of […]
Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
1st Sunday after Christmas A
Christmas (Church Seasons); Judgment (Theological Topics); Salvation (Theological Topics)
James 5:7-10
Advent 3A
[…] were a season that highlights those who can afford the luxury gifts for friends and family and those who cannot, it is (sadly enough) the Advent and Christmas season that does this in spades now. When in verse 7 James begins to counsel his fellow believers with patience and with the reassurance that God […]
Romans 15:4-13
Advent 2A
[…] whose actions betray the very heart of what Christ came to accomplish and the manner by which he accomplished it. In the church during Advent and at Christmas we sometimes give in to the wider culture’s desire to keep everything upbeat, cheery, merry, and twinkly. It seems like a bad time to address head […]
Luke 2:22-40
Christmas 1B
[…] draw together “an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us” (Luke 1:1) he meant business! And so in this lection for the Sunday after Christmas we find the intriguing story about old Simeon and Anna in the Temple on the day when Jesus was formally dedicated to God according to the […]
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