Sermons on Luke 2:22-40
Sermon for First Sunday of Christmas
Prepare to Die, Part 2
Seeing Jesus
Speaking of Him to All
Appointed for the Rising and Falling of Many
Sermon for 1st Sunday after Christmas
The Presentation
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
As has become our pattern in recent years, we celebrate the feasts and festivals of the church year when they fall on Sundays. In spite of the much-appreciated extra work for our beloved Altar Guild in changing the paraments a few more times, it is right and…
The Child, The Gift
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
There are some great things about having a church year, a liturgy, a lectionary of readings, Collects, and other Propers of the day. That is, in having those things that—with an ever-changing dynamic of variety—put a predictable framework around our gathering in…
Prepared in the Presence of All People
Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. Whenever families get together there is always a regaling of stories of times past. Being the youngest of four kids, it was always about what I did. How I did this or that. How they changed my diapers and so forth. You oldest ones have got it going on, I'm telling…
Purified by the Firstborn
Grace, mercy, and peace to you on this First Sunday after Christmas, from God our Father, and from our incarnate Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ: It’s only been a few days from our celebration of the nativity of Jesus. In our Gospel reading for this morning, however, we are fast-forwarding some six weeks from that miraculous birth.…