Holy Family
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Bearing Christ
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7 min read
The light doesn’t come from the bright places: its radiance and brilliance shines through the darkness, through the darkest corners of our world, through the darkest corners of our lives. It envelops the darkness with its truth, its mercy, its love. Bringing forth the salvation of the world Christmas Eve | Luke 2:1-20 The Promise…
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Christmas Message 2015
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3 min read
Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. When we tell the birth story of Jesus, we speak of this unlikely couple with a very unlikely pregnancy; a trip to Bethlehem with its…
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Revealed By the Light
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8 min read
This is our season of truth. Our season of light. It is casting candles in the dark corners we refuse to visit. It is making new plans and making changes we’ve been avoiding. It is ringing in the new year with an examined courage rather than willful ignorance.
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The Miracle
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5 min read
The Nativity and the Christmas Truce Christmas | Luke 2:1-20 What Is and Isn’t There Have you ever noticed that a word is missing from the account of Jesus’s birth? There is no word telling exactly where Jesus is born. The word stable doesn’t appear, though most of us put him there in our minds.…
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Writing Our Future
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7 min read
a Sermon for Christmas 2AText: Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 A Troubling History A few years ago, Diana Butler Bass wrote a book called A People’s History of Christianity. Like other “People’s Histories,” it is a history told, not from the perspective of the victors, but of the vanquished: in this case, it is the people, whose…
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Alternate Reality Nativity
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1 min read
In this version of the story, the three wisemen are spies who invade another nativity set and kidnap Baby Jesus. Maybe this is why we can’t account for Jesus’s childhood. Published via Pressgram