Guido Da Siena – Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (public domain) On the First Sunday after Christmas, the Revised Common Lectionary offers us the text known as “The Presentation of Jesus.” It’s Luke 2:22-40 and comes in four distinct scenes. The Presentation The scene is set for the Presentation with references to the Holy […]
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A Children’s Sermon on John 9:1-41 — Jesus Heals a Man Blind from Birth
The story of the healing of the man born blind is another very long one. That adds to the challenge of basing a children’s sermon on John 9:1-41. It isn’t that the content is complex or obscure. It s just that the one story has about six different scenes. With a Gospel text, I often […]
Celebrating the Birth of Jesus with His Mother
During Advent I went one Wednesday night to St. George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral in Pittsburgh. I was surprised to hear a service that was new to me: Not the ordinary Vespers, but the “Advent Paraklesis.” As in so much of Orthodox worship, the hymns carry a huge freight of theology. As always there is much […]
Jesus Christ’s New Job Description (Heidelberg Catechism Q51)
The Heidelberg Catechism (my favorite 450 year old Reformed summary of biblical Christianity, and a topic I’ve been blogging on since 2013) spends 23 questions painstakingly exploring issues that are not especially pressing to today’s Christians: They explain the Apostles’ Creed line by line. That’s good: the Creed is a classic summary of the important events leading to […]
Why Did Jesus Have to Die? (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 40)
We are in the season of Easter. This is when, of all seasons of the year, our attention needs to focus on the resurrection of Christ. But we find our selves asking instead “Why did Jesus have to die?” Ours tends to be a “Good Friday” faith. We see the empty tomb and we think […]
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