christmas
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Christmas Peace
As we near Christmas, I am struck by how old the world is, how little it has changed, in spite of our celebration that a…
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Christmas 2 • Luke 2:40–52 • January 3, 2016
By Thomas Manteufel This story shows the holy family in Jerusalem at the feast of Passover. According to Deuteronomy 16:16, all male Israelites were obligated…
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Christmas 1 • Luke 2:22–40 • December 27, 2015
By Todd Jones Joy to the world, Christmas has come! For many, the joy of this holiday season is in the opened gifts and the…
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Hope Rising: Preaching Luke
David Schmitt on preaching Luke from Advent to Easter in Year C. Need we say more?
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Christmas 1 • Galatians 4:4–7 • December 28, 2014
By Glenn A. Nielsen The celebration of Christmas begins, in stores and media, months before December 25. Advent has led up to the church’s celebrations of Christmas…
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Lessons and Carols
On the last day before Christmas break, campus chapel had a brief service of Lessons and Carols–a bit of proleptic Christmas joy in the midst…
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Preaching the Voices (from the Edge)
Apparently, David Schmitt has been thinking about life on the edge.
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A “Church” that Never Saw “Christmas”
Ancient ruins and our not-so-ancient “Christmas”
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Macy’s, Handel’s Messiah, and a random act of hyperspace
By now, it has been making the email and Facebook rounds many times over: The Opera Company of Philadelphia hides in the Center City Philadephia…