Month: December 2015
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“Finding Jesus for the First Time”
Theme: We find our peace in Jesus, and a realization that it was never Jesus who was lost in the first place. Jesus waits for us to find our way home. Luke 2:41-52 (NRSV): Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old,…
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“Revelation”
Theme: God reveals God Self to us through Jesus Christ: love enfleshed – our saving grace, our God of paradoxical humility, who comes to us as a new-born baby, with love. Luke 2:1-20 (NRSV): In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first…
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“What Should We Do?”
Theme: Living into God’s promise of salvation as Christians is not completed with our baptism, but rather has just begun there. We are called to live a life of charity and compassion for others, to share forgiveness and love in ways made possible only by the power of the Holy Spirit and the intercession of…
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“Prophetic Imagination”
Theme: In our rush to prepare for the Christ’s coming, we sometimes forget that our Lord Jesus is already with us. Luke 3:1-6 (NRSV): In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region…
Ellen Clark Clemot 