Dec 29, 2019
Dec 22, 2019
Luke 1:46-56; Philemon
1:10-21; Romans 6:20-23
Mary. The teenage mother of Christ.
She was born in occupied Israel. Rome had been the ruling presence
for years. Outside rules and outside taxes forcing outside
oppression over a people long oppressed. Then, at the birth of the
newborn king, the insiders begin their...
Dec 15, 2019
Isaiah 35:1-10
The Gospel and the coming of Jesus
Christ is the greatest joy the world has ever known. It is the
promise of the cessation of all evil and the returning of light to
a dark world. The Gospel is dead things coming to life and dried up
riverbeds teeming with water again. The Kingdom breaking in, is a
sick...
Dec 8, 2019
Matthew 5:43-46; Luke
10:30-35; John 13:31-35
In the song ‘O Holy Night’ the above
lyric hits us. The next line is “His law is love and his gospel is
peace.” As we gather this week to celebrate Advent peace, we have
to ask ourselves, what have we learned this year in how we love one
another? Who is the “one...
Dec 1, 2019
At first, the line just seems like a bit of rising action in the verse leading to the famous chorus and the full on punch of O Holy Night. However, there is so much weight in the little lyric, "till he appeared and the soul felt its worth." We live in a culture where our souls are encased in a body that doesn't feel its...