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  • Isaiah (Dec. 22, 2024)

    Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-2 Isaiah A little vengeance can feel nice and most of us are all too happy to stand up and say, “I told you so.”  If you read Isaiah, he sounds a lot like the sibling who keeps saying, “you’re going to get it when Mom and Dad come home.”  The problem with…

  • Mary (Dec. 15, 2024)

    Scripture: Luke 1:38 Mary The thing about the Mary story that really blows me away is trying to understand the faith of a fifteen year who says, “may it be to me as you have said.”  These might be greatest words of faith ever spoken by a human being (and will be echoed thirty some…

  • Nazareth (Dec. 9, 2024)

    Scripture: Luke 2:2, Matthew 2:23 Nazareth      Every country and region has charming, small towns.  Nazareth was not one of them.  Nazareth was small but apparently there was nothing about Nazareth reputed to be charming.  Somehow little Nazareth had developed a national reputation as being a small, backward spot people were sorry there was…

  • The Angel Gabriel (Dec. 8, 2024)

    SCRIPTURE:  Luke  1:26-28  GABRIEL       Gabriel is one of only two angels mentioned by name in the scripture (the other is Michael).  The name means literally, “God is my hero” and the angel’s job was to take the hero’s messages wherever he was told to do so.  Gabriel appears to be one of the…

  • Gospel of John (Dec 7, 2024)

    SCRIPTURE:  John 1:1-14  GOSPEL OF JOHN      John is not the black sheep of the Gospels.  John is the technicolor, tie-dyed, neurodivergent sheep who saw deeper meaning in everything.  John didn’t color outside the lines, he just saw the lines as a metaphor for something deeper.  I do John an injustice if I imply…

  • Gospel of Luke (Dec. 6, 2024)

    Scripture: Luke 3:23-38 Gospel of Luke    Luke is certainly the better known of the Christmas stories. Unlike Matthew, Luke is a gospel for the non-Jews. Unlike Mark, Luke pauses to frame Jesus’s ministry in a geographical and historical situation. Matthew and Luke are both carefully introduced, properly presented and include a genealogy. Whereas Matthew traces…

  • Gospel of Mark (Dec 5, 2024)

    Scripture:  Mark 1:1-12  GOSPEL OF MARK       I have never heard a Christmas sermon based on the Gospel of Mark.  That’s probably because there is a noticeable lack of reference to Jesus’ birth in Mark.  After a quote from Isaiah, Mark starts right in with an adult John the Baptist (Bulldozer).  Verse four says,…

  • Zachariah- December 2

    Scripture: Luke 1:18-20. Preparing in our house, usually takes some muscle. When we were leaving for a trip, there is something one could kindly describe as a “flurry of activity.” Remember, preparing for a wedding? If there isn’t some sweat, confusion, and shouts through the house, then we probably aren’t “preparing.” That may be necessary…