Preaching (2005)
  1. What would the world be like without Christmas? That is, what would it be like without the declaration of Christmas: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord”?
  2. The Baptizer is a prophet who has more of the Word of God in his pointer finger than most preachers have in their whole body!
  3. This text invites you and your people to see in the Christ not only the welcome but the inspiration to welcome the other, indeed the enemy, not simply to put up with, but to love.
  4. There is a hiddenness to this revelation of God’s reign and rule. It appears first like a shoot and ends with the reign of this Davidic messiah over a peaceable kingdom of opposites.
  5. The Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles to put God’s Word into human language has guided and guarded their transmission in the course of human history preserving them for the sake of the Gospel.
  6. Today, on the First Sunday of Advent, on the First Sunday of the Church Year, Jesus invites us to bring to Him our humble places.
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