Local Meditations on Christmas
Pastors from local churches offer special holiday messages.
Throughout December local religious leaders have offered messages relating to the Christmas season and the story of Christ's birth. Here are excerpts from two recent sermons. If you would like to share a Christmas message, you can do so by creating a PDF file and uploading it here. Or, you can post it directly into our announcements section. Excerpt from Advent Sermon of Rev. Scott MacDonald, First Evangelical Lutheran Church. (Full text attached.) In recent weeks we looked at the gift and of Faith, (faith, the gift that trusts Christ’s promises,) the gift of hope, (hope that looks forward to whathe promises,) and today the gift of his love. Faith-hope-love, these three.They remain! So, they are like members of the same family. They …
Carol B
12:13 pm on Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Bravo to Rev. Humbert. He managed to deliver his message, and (pun intended) keep it light. Our Puritan forbears believed in Calvin's (and Jonathan Edwards') angry God--but Christmas is not about fire and brimstone, it's about love and caring and giving and redemption. In this season of great joy, we have known so much sadness . . . but God has brought those little souls, and the souls of their … more ›