When I consider the opening verses of our Old Testament lesson today, I can envision the prophet, standing atop a high place before the people of Israel, declaring in a […]
Think if you will about water….. so ordinary, so powerful, so necessary. Life-giving, but potentially life-threatening. An element we cannot live without, should not take for granted, and ought to […]
Our gospel lesson this morning recounted the familiar visit of the wise men, a key set of figures in our holiday nativity scenes. They come bringing rather, should we say, […]
I cannot read the gospel lesson this morning without recalling the time we lost our son – well, the first time anyway. While you might have heard this one before, […]
About a week before Christmas a family bought a new nativity scene. When they unpacked it they found 2 figures of the Baby Jesus. “Someone must have packed this wrong,” […]
Jill Duffield, the author of Advent in Plain Sight, wrote her devotional book with the purpose of discerning the divine possibilities in what first appears to be commonplace. In her […]
I may have mentioned this before, but as a fresh-out-of-seminary pastor, I was anticipating an Advent season full of sermons and stories about a sweet baby in a manger. Apparently, […]
Well, we are finding ourselves in the midst of everything Christmas; well, except for the warm, sunny afternoons without a snowflake in sight. The Salvation Army kettles are out, the […]
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