Text: Jeremiah 31:7-14 If John the Baptist is the unlikely poster prophet for Advent, Jeremiah is the even more unlikely poster prophet...

Text: Luke 2:1-20 I grew up with parents who loved Christmas. And I am married to someone who loves Christmas. Yet, the way that Jennell...

Text: John 1:1-5 The Presbyterian pastor and novelist, Frederick Buechner sends us this Christmas gift: “The young clergyman and his wife...

Texts: Micah 4:2-3; 5:2-5b The first carol I can ever remember singing as a child is “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” At that young age, I...

Text: Luke 3:7-18 Holidays make me nostalgic. Remember the good ole days when we did not have a collection of masks and bottles of hand...

Text: Luke 1:67-80; 3:1-6 The weekly Advent themes of hope, peace, joy, and love do not align well with our world. Today, we lit the...

Text: Luke 21:25-28 I am so ready for a new year to arrive. I have given serious thought to skipping Advent and even boycotting...

Text: Zechariah 7:1-14 [The words of the prophet Zechariah date to a few years after Jewish exiles in Babylon had returned to a...

Texts: I Thessalonians 5:9-11; II Thessalonians 3:6-13 (After the Thessalonians text is read, a large, dead shrub is set on top of the...

Texts: Mark 12:41-44; The Book of Ruth On this All Saints’ Sunday, we have just read about an unlikely saint, a widow who is now...