When you preach the Christmas story, never forget this: The Christmas story is not all candles, candy-canes and chocolate-bark. It is a story filled with scandal, betrayal, treachery, filth and murder. In Auschwitz, a young girl terrified of touching dead bodies, is...
Some Favor! Lectionary 24 December 2017 Fourth Sunday in Advent 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Luke 1:46b-55 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 Text to Life I’m so glad to see you this morning, Christmas Eve morning. But I imagine none of you are here without varying degrees of...
This week’s spiritual is well-known and full of hope. This song turns the question “Is there no balm in Gilead?” found in Jeremiah, into an assertion of confidence. There is a balm. It flows in Gilead. The balm brings healing, revival, knowledge, and love. As we...
Keep Christ in Christmas. But … what if Christ doesn’t want to be kept in Christmas? To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly, Coaching Membership, Coaching Membership -...
This year, Christmas Eve falls on Sunday. That means for many churches, more emphasis on liturgy, and the bells and smells of Christmas on that last Sunday in advent, as well as evening services. Christmas Eve is a time more than any other when we break out the...
