Matthew 2:1-12 It is difficult to read this piece of the Christmas story and not picture three youngsters wearing Sunday School Pageant finery and sporting ill fitting crowns, making their way down the center aisle while the congregation sings, “We Three Kings.” And yet, my imagination is taking me in a different direction this year as …
John 1:1-14 This past week I headed out on some communion calls… taking the gifts of God to those who can’t be part of our celebrations with us in worship in these next hours. First I knelt with Hazel in the hallway outside the dining room at the nursing home which has been her residence these …
Luke 2:1-20 I grew up with a manger scene, of course… the very same one that still adorns my mother’s living room each Advent/Christmas season. My dad made ours out of plywood when we were children. There is a round hole in the back at the top of the wall where a Christmas bulb fits through: …
Luke 1:39-45 (46-55) “The Hopes and Fears of All the Years Are Met in Thee Tonight…” …. Phillip Brooks, 1867 …
Luke 3:7-18 When I was in college I had a summer job working at Del Monte in my home town. Pea Pack would start mid-June and run deep into July. It was good work, although I have to say I was especially grateful to be assigned a job which was at least a little bit …
Luke 3:1-7 We meet up with John again every year in Advent. And we meet up with John always in the wilderness. It’s the wilderness part that has me thinking this year — remembering that the identity of the people of Israel was formed and shaped by forty years in the wilderness. Indeed, I expect that …