December 26, 2006 – 4:59 pm
Scriptures for Sunday, December 31, 2006
Christmas 1, Year C I Samuel 2:18-20, 26Psalm 148Colossians 3:12-17Luke 2: 41-52
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Merry Christmas again!
For those of us preachers who do not take the Sunday after Christmas off (all 20 of us), it is back to the preaching grind. In a couple […]
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December 24, 2006 – 6:44 pm
It is almost here, and so I want to wish all my readers a merry Christmas, and share with you all one of my favorite Christmas hymns (complete with words to a seldom published third verse).
In the Bleak Midwinter
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), 1872;appeared posthumously in The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, Poem #426, 1904.
In […]
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December 24, 2006 – 4:25 am
This sermon borrows from a lot of sources, namely some work by Will Willimon in the middle, and I am indebted to Craig Kocher of Duke for the opening illustration. I still need to work on the transition between the beginning and end, and I would like to shorten it a little, tighten it up […]
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