The Baptism of the Lord Sunday is one of the recurring Sundays in the church year. I don’t mind recurring Sundays. I feel there is real value in looking again at something familiar . . . but actually looking at it. Regardless of all that I was wondering what I was going to say about…
Happy New Year! Again! One of the nice things about using the church calendar is getting two New Year celebrations. We had the beginning of the new liturgical year a few weeks ago and we are now into a new calendar year too. I don’t tend to make resolutions, nothing wrong with them but if…
Merry Christmas! We are all in the family, the same family. Our New Testament lesson for today makes it very clear, “God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.” (Galatians 4:4b-5 NRSV) This…