I heard the bells on christmas day.
Christmas day preaching.
They are also fuel for great preaching.
Preaching on christmas day 2020.
Some people think the christmas verses are the stuff of christmas pageants and cheesy dramas.
This podcast will help us rethink how we hear see and interact with the lectionary readings refocusing from the rush of the christmas season to the voice crying out in the wilderness.
First off let me say that some congregations and some pastors love christmas day.
He alone reveals god to humanity and he alone reveals god s plans for us.
The 20 30 people who gathered on the morning of the 25 wanted to be there.
There is no one like him.
Their old familiar carols play and wild and sweet.
This all age talk for christmas day is based around a game of name that tune.
The point of this all age sermon is that jesus is totally unique.
Christmas makes you deeply mystical.
Have yourself a global little christmas what does it mean to have a global christmas message.
Each of the 5 tunes once guessed help to build up the sermon which ends asking people to invite jesus into their lives if they ve not already done so.
You ll hear ancient texts interpreted in new ways find fodder for preaching and teaching and make present day connections to the prophetic voices of the bible.
Maier mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart luke 2 19 this last sunday in december reminds us in the increasing rush of time that we are all a milestone closer to the grave twelve months.
Immanuel the almighty god became immanuel god with us so we can spend eternity with him.
Hold tight to christmas.
Just like a piece of music the more we listen to it and get to know it the.
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It will make you deeply mystical happily material fiercely relational and free to be emotional.
They craved the lights up coffee brewing less frequently sung hymns and reading of john 1.
Here are the lyrics.
Christmas day is a holy and happy day when we commemorate the coming of god.
I served such a group for 10 years.
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Oh christmas three the wise person continues to seek and worship jesus.
Verses 3 and 4 tell us that if you grasp this idea not that christmas is a sweet story but that jesus christ came to earth god became flesh and lived the life you should have lived died the death you should have died as a savior not just as a teacher or an example then christmas will do four things to you.
Round yon violence christmas is god making war against sin.