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Christmas Eve 2016 Sermon - Based on the Christmas Eve Collect

Posted: Saturday, December 24th, 2016 (0 comments)

We just passed the darkest day of the year. The difference now is negligible. We’re looking forward to a few more minutes of daylight coming soon, but summer is still 6 long months away, half of them cold. The sky is often dark from clouds and the landscape looks depressing if there’s no snow. Christmas lights and decorations inside and out are necessary to drive away the sadness that naturally creeps into our lives even without much effort. . . .

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Christmas Day 2016 - St. Luke 2:1-20

Posted: Sunday, December 25th, 2016 (0 comments)

He called himself “son of the divine.” His throne name told the world he was going to increase. So he decreed a census. The entire empire, almost all the known world, had to be counted. He needed to know what he could expect in tax revenue, how many soldiers he had, how many people he ruled. . . .

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