4th Sunday in Advent December 23, 2012 Luke 2:1-5, Isaiah 35:1-10 Several of us have spent the last week or so collecting, wrapping and distributing gifts and food boxes for hundreds of households that needed extra help to make Christmas a celebration for their families. What a madhouse. Literally thousands […]
Seeing the Larger Context
Christ the King Sunday November 21, 2010 Colossians 1: 11-20 Early Christian communities were tiny gatherings in towns and cities that were rich and powerful. The facades of the restored gymnasium at Sardis and the huge synagogue which adjoined the portico of the main thoroughfare are astonishing even to our modern eyes. Pergamum had the […]