Advent Resources Year B
Advent – Year B A collection of Advent resources and Christmas resources including sermon ideas, whole sermons, sermon series ideas, and more. Home » You searched for christmas » Page 9 Advent Resources 2023 Quick Links First Sunday in Advent, December 3, 2023 Second Sunday in Advent, December 10, 2023 Third Sunday in Advent, […]
Isaiah 2:1-5
Advent 1A
Over time many people, including most certainly many church people, have come to view Advent (and certainly Christmas) as a time when we need to do our level best to keep at bay any and all thoughts about sad things. Hence, a death in the congregation anywhere near Christmas just feels worse somehow than […]
Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)
Christmas Day A
Here we are, Christmas on a Sunday. Merry Christmas! This year, I’m especially appreciating the way that Luke subtly weaves together various postures and social positions in his birth narrative. As Luke Timothy Johnson aptly puts it, “Luke’s manner is to show how God’s fidelity is worked out in human events when appearances seem […]
Psalm 147:12-20
Christmas 2B
[…] letdown.” After all, even if, as T.S. Eliot writes, “April is the cruelest month,” January is the coldest month, at least in many parts of North America. Christmas’ excitement generally allows North Americans to look past December’s sometimes-wintry weather. But now the holidays are over, leaving many of us with just the dark, cold […]
Psalm 147:12-20
2nd Sunday after Christmas C
[…] After all, even if, as T.S. Eliot writes, “April is the cruelest month,” January is perhaps the coldest month, at least in many parts of North America. Christmas’ excitement generally allows North Americans to look past December’s sometimes-wintry weather. But now the holidays are over, leaving many of us with just the dark, cold […]
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 […]
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)
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