Dec 30, 2018
Luke
2:41-52
After three days they found him in the temple,
sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them
questions. 47 And all who
heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
48 And when his parents saw him, they were astonished.
And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated
us...
Dec 23, 2018
Matthew 1:18-25
And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to
put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
Marriage. The Holy Family. Father, Mother, and Child. When we look
at the engagement of Joseph to Mary during the season of Advent it
reminds us that God is present even through the rocky and...
Dec 16, 2018
Luke 1:39-56
And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has
looked on the humble estate of his servant..."
What is the source of all of your joy? I mean where does it come
from? Joy breaks into the Advent season with the color pink and
disrupts the bleak mid-winter...
Dec 9, 2018
Matthew 2:1-23 &
11:11-15
When Herod the king heard this,
he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling
all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of
them where the Christ was to be born.
There is no such thing as a
sentimental Christmas. The coming of God comes to us with love that
puts...