Advent Wreath Candle Lighting Third Week of Advent, December 13, 2020 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 & John 1:6-8, 19-28 Reader One: We want everything to look nice: the decorations of the season, our homes with their lights and tinsel, wreaths and … Continue reading →
Isaiah 9:6-7 A child is born to us, a son is given to us, and authority will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 7 There will be vast authority and … Continue reading →
Mary Pondering Luke 1:46-55 But in the days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of the mountains; it will be lifted above the hills; peoples will stream to it. 2 Many nations will go … Continue reading →
Let the stable still astonish: Straw-dirt floor, dull eyes, Dusty flanks of donkeys, oxen; Crumbling, crooked walls; No bed to carry that pain, And then, the child, Rag-wrapped, laid to cry In a trough. Who would have chosen this? Who … Continue reading →
Advent December 2020 Prelude to conversation… We are waiting aren’t we? We are longing for, urgently expecting and impatiently waiting for the end of COVID. This is not the first time that people have been longing for the end of … Continue reading →
Matthew 1:23 The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means “God with us.”) We love to sing O Come, O Come, Immanuel as we prepare our hearts to celebrate … Continue reading →
Scripture: Luke 2:5-6 He [Joseph] went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave … Continue reading →
“Jesus was born to greatness, God incarnate but the reality of that incarnation is both the mundane and the amazing fact that a mother can nurture and feed an infant. This fact is both routine and miraculous. The incarnation begins … Continue reading →
Advent Wreath Candle Lighting Second Week of Advent, December 6, 2020 Isaiah 40:1-11 & Mark 1:1-8 Reader One: Our lists are long, even in this strange mess where we live these days. And we want to do it right, we … Continue reading →
Host of Angels Dawn Eggenberger Angels from the Realms of Glory, proclaims, Angels, from the realms of glory, wing your flight o’er all the earth; ye who sang creation’s story, now proclaim Messiah’s birth: come and worship, come and worship, … Continue reading →
