Luke 2.22-40

Today is New Year’s Eve. 

For so many of us, we’ll begin new diets and exercise plans. 

Others will make this the year to get their finances together. 

Maybe we’ll begin a search for a new job or a new house. 

Maybe this is the year that we finally spend more t...

READ Luke 2.1-20

In my hometown in Upstate New York, the house I grew up in was on a dead-end road, which terminated in some scraggly woods about 100 yards from the banks of the Mohawk River, which ran through town. 

As child, my dad would take me on these great hikes th...

Read: Luke 1.46b-55

Sometimes, when I read these passages about Mary, they seem so distant — so far away. 

What I mean by that, is that it’s almost unfathomable to us. 

Forget for a moment the miracle of the Angel Gabriel coming to tell this 12- or 13-year old girl that s...

Based on Mark 1.1-8

A few years ago, I remember a particular Christmas season. 

It was before I began the process of becoming a pastor, and I was a worship leader at a church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 

That particular Christmas, though, was pretty lean. 

The boys were sti...