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16 mins read|12/15/21
Debunking Popular Christmastime Myths: Temple Shepherds, Migdal Eder, and Swaddling Lambs
The Bethlehem shepherds were raising lambs for the temple? Jesus was born in a shepherd's tower called Migdal Eder? Shepherds swaddled lambs to keep them unblemished then placed them in a manger to keep them safe? What are we to make of these popular claims? -
8 mins read|12/31/20
The Sad State of My Backyard
The setting for Luke 2 is the first century analog to my backyard. The stage is dressed with rust and decay, guilt and shame, sin and death. -
10 mins read|12/27/20
Gospel: Luke 2:40-52 (Christmas 2: Series B)
We begin in ignorance and we end in ignorance. But, in the midst of our ignorance, Jesus is walking with us. -
9 mins read|12/24/20
Waiting with Simeon
We’ve hung on every whisper of hope that this way of life would end and a new one would rise to take its place. -
21 mins read|12/23/20
Christmas Special: Jesus Renders the Ordinary Extraordinary
The incarnate Son of God makes ordinary events extraordinary by making them events that factor into our salvation. -
11 mins read|12/20/20
Gospel: Luke 2:22-40 (Christmas 1: Series B)
As Simeon sang, you might lead your hearers in a song of defiant and hopeful confidence to close out a year characterized by death and despair.
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