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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Preaching Helps for Sunday, December 31, 2006 - Christmas 1C

Scriptures for Sunday, December 31, 2006
Christmas 1, Year C I Samuel 2:18-20, 26Psalm 148Colossians 3:12-17Luke 2: 41-52
Click here to read these verses in the NRSV
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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God Rest You Merry! My Friends

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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Christmas Eve Sermon 2006 - A Gift We Receive, A Gift We Can Give

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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