Preaching (2008)
  1. Jesus’s travel to Egypt reminds us that we are a missionary people, together as we pray and send, individually as God plumps us down in the midst of situations in which he calls on us to give witness to him and to the trust in him that sustains us in daily life.
  2. Christmas is not for remembering, thinking, pondering, trying to make sure you are really celebrating it properly, or for wondering whether you truly have faith.
  3. As we hear what God is doing, we begin to realize how true freedom and joy in this life are not about managing our reality but, like Joseph, about faithfully receiving what God is doing.
  4. When God is truly present among us, how can we not, in turn, respond with love for Him?
  5. How does God meet you in unexpected ways today? How does God meet you with unexpected grace?
  6. Christmas wrecks all attempts to penetrate God’s hiddenness and seek Him out in Heaven. He comes to us clothed in our humanity.
  7. There is a hiddenness to the splendor of the Messianic reign and rule of God for now that will only be seen fully on the final day.
  8. Knowing the coming Judge as the one who endured for me changes the waiting of endurance into, indeed, a “we can hardly stand the wait.”
  9. Faint of heart or strong, Advent finds us all in a world that shakes our faith and drives us to wonder about the work and promises of this God who claims to love us.
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