There are so many things to like about paying attention to the liturgical year and one of them, that I am sure I have mentioned before, is the Christmas isn’t just one day. This year there are two Sundays after Christmas Day. Two Sundays where we get to sing Christmas carols and songs and think…
So today was the shortest day of the year. I wish I would have remembered that when I was preaching I think I might have been able to do something with that. You might be wondering what “it” is that everybody does . . . I wasn’t trying to be provocative but just inclusive. What…
This Sunday’s sermons take a bit of a different look at “joy” and do so through first spending some time thinking about what the word means and for that matter what words mean at all. There is a perverse tendency in our culture to take good and useful words and make them useless. Most of…