Listen to this sermon HERE.
"Even as this Christmas story may be both wonderfully sentimental and familiar, don’t let the scandal, the offensiveness, be lulled out of it this peaceful night -- it is precisely what makes this night holy: that God chose to be born into this filth."
God's always "hooking us," pulling us back: back to the Word, back to the Meal, back to the Font...back to the community.
This blog is for the purpose of sharing around each Sunday's Bible readings & sermon at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church.
Get Sunday's readings here. We follow the Narrative Lectionary.
This blog is for the purpose of sharing around each Sunday's Bible readings & sermon at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church.
Get Sunday's readings here. We follow the Narrative Lectionary.
So, what's been hooking you?
So, what's been hooking you?
Sunday, December 29, 2013
December 24 -- Christmas Eve
Labels:
angels,
Christmas,
forgiveness,
honesty,
night/darkness,
poor,
shepherds,
welcoming
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