God will make a way. On this third Sunday of Advent, we have rounded a corner from the repentant beginning of Advent to the great celebration of Christmas. We light the rose colored candle on the Advent wreath because it represents joy and the act of rejoicing as we begin to anticipate the birth of [...]
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Advent 1, Year B, 2008
30Nov08Happy New Year! The world is going to end! Today, this first Sunday in Advent, we celebrate the beginning of the new church year. Advent is the season of repentance as we prepare to welcome Christ into the world. However, Advent is also the time in the church year during which we remind ourselves that [...]
Advent 2, Year A, 2007
09Dec07God never shows up in quite the way we expect. I wake up to NPR in the mornings and this Wednesday, after a story about funeral homes for pets, another of the endless stories about faith and the Presidential campaign began to play. At a recent speech, when explaining his faith, John McCain told a [...]
Advent 1, Year C, 2006
01Dec06Today marks the first Sunday of Advent-the liturgical time of the year during which we wait, with eager anticipation, for God to enter the world. This waiting has been happening for a long time and will continue for a long time. And, as Christians, we become those who wait. We wait for God to come [...]
Advent 4, Year B, 2005
19Dec05King David was a manly man. He slayed giants. He slept with other men’s wives and killed their husbands. He led the armies that secured Jerusalem. He established a kingdom. (He also danced through the streets naked, but that is another sermon.) Sweet Mary, on the other hand, was by all accounts a nice girl [...]
