Christmas Eve Litany Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 One: Tonight we tell a story Many: The story of how God came to be with us. One: To a virgin and her betrothed Many: On a cold night, in a town crowded beyond belief One: With the two of them huddled in...
THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD Luke 2:1-7 It’s a complicated ordeal, this business of celebrating Christmas. We do make it complicated, don’t we? Tom Tewell, pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan tells the story of a little girl who was carried away with the...
Dale Bruner, in his New Testament commentary on Matthew: Jesus is to be that rare person whose name means exactly what it says. “God-Saves” is not only Jesus’ name, it is his perfect definition; if both words–God, saves–are taken with full seriousness,...
One of my favorite stories that I have used at Christmas is simply called “THE TABLECLOTH.” It’s short enough to read and no one lose interest. Here is it in full: “THE TABLECLOTH” The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen...
Here is a great Christmas Eve sermon idea (or any time idea): hand out everyone a candy cane. Then build the sermon around the image of the “cane” as a shepherd’s staff: “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me” (Psalm 23). There is a big difference between a...
“And now God says to us what God has already said to the earth as a whole through his grace-filled birth: ‘I am there. I am with you. I am your life. I am your time. I am the gloom of your daily routine—-I am your joy. Do not be… To access this post, you must...
