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…