Tag: Christmas
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Christ Still Comes
Christ still comes – ready or not. Grace to you and peace on this Christmas morning. Advent has come and gone; the candlelight of Christmas Eve is over – and here we are in the broad daylight of Christmas day. To tell you the truth it all snuck up on me. We just moved into…
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A Christmas Day homily
One of my best friends and his wife are expecting a new baby any day now. So I’ve been having fun doing a little baby-clothes shopping. Holding the soft sleepers and tiny blankets brings back memories of days that weren’t that long ago when my own boys were that small. Most of the lessons of…
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Christmas Light
Christmas is a lot more cheerful for me these days than it used to be. In addition to the joy that sharing Christmas with our children brings, I really am happy to be at a church that has one Christmas Eve service instead of five. I feel like I really get to worship on Christmas…
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Blue Christmas (a sermon for the Longest Night)
Luke 2:1-20 2 Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up…
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A Happy New Year (sermon for the First Sunday of Christmas)
When my youngest son, Jesse, was a baby – only about three months old, my mom got very sick and was sent to the hospital in Saint Cloud. My dad’s health was so poor he couldn’t be there with her and with St. Cloud being a couple hours from our hometown she didn’t have any…