While most people love the seasons of Advent and Christmas, because we think, who doesn’t love celebrating a baby coming into the world and contemplating all the blessings in our lives, when we consider the Gospel text from Matthew today we remember that the news of Christ coming might have unearthed some other emotions for […]
Using Matthew 2, the preacher maintains that the glow of Christmas must have the next part of the story to understand what it means that Jesus saves.That is the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt and the response of Herod to the Messiah’s birth.
This sermon is an allegory of the Joseph and Mary story, which is Matthew’s christmas story. What would Joeseph do? Merideth and Julias have been married 30 years, yet Merideth has a love that makes Julius very jealous. What would Julius do?
Joseph was reassured by the angel that there was room for him in this holy family, and that there was room for him in the stable. As we get ready to celebrate Christmas this week, we are also once again reminded that there is room for us in God’s holy family, that there is room […]