Posts from December 2018

John 1:1-14 Well, let’s just pause a moment and take a deep breath. We have reached the end of another Advent and Christmas season. I hope it was as meaningful for you as it was for me. We stand here, at the end of the Christmas season, and at the end of one year, ready to begin a whole, brand-new year.  The gifts have all been given, and the food has all been eaten…

ISAIAH 9:2,6 AND PSALM 103:8-14 What comes to mind when I say the name, “Father Christmas?” Do you think of a round-bellied, jolly individual in a red suit? Does he have white hair and a full-white beard? How about when I say the name, “Father Time?” How do you picture him? Someone with a long,…

ISAIAH 9: 2,6 AND PSALM 72:1-7  Edward Hicks is a Quaker minister from the 1800’s who is famous for his painting, the Peaceable Kingdom, of which he painted more than 60 versions. You may be familiar with the version that hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It depicts a variety…

ISAIAH 9:2-7 AND MARK 1:21-28 This week is the second week of advent and the second week in our series based on Isaiah 9, and the names given in the passage. These names and this passage have been seen through the years as prophetic of the coming of Christ. So, we are looking at how these names are fulfilled in the person of Christ. Verse six reads: For a child has been…

Isaiah 9:2-7 I missed you guys last week! But on Christ the King Sunday, I know you had a wonderful message from a wonderful pastor and friend, Rev. Jim Cummings. I rather envy that he got to preach on that particular Sunday, for of all the Sundays there is no ambiguity about it at all. The main…