This Sunday, our service will be a Festival of Lessons and Carols. The nine scriptures can be found here. On Christmas Eve of 1918, the world had just gone through four years of World War I. Nearly a generation of people were wiped out due to war and disease. Unfortunately, the world was in the […]
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For this Sunday, we will be in John 1:6-8, 19-28. John has no title. John is not given the title “John the Baptist” or “John the Baptizer”. He is simply John. And John has one purpose: To testify to the Light. In verse twenty, after being asked by the religious leaders if he was the
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The scripture for this Second Sunday of Advent is Mark 1:1-8. Mark is the oldest and shortest of the four Gospels. The word “gospel” itself means “good news”. And Mark begins this book with the words “[t]he beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, God’s Son…”. Compared to the other three Gospels, Mark
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Our scriptures this Sunday are Isaiah 11:1-10 and Matthew 3:1-12. At first glance, Isaiah seems more hopeful than Matthew. Isaiah speaks of new growth, a new leader, and a new world where all will dwell together in peace. On the other hand, John the Baptist in Matthew seems to give us a bleaker picture of
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