Tag: Christmas Day
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The Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord (Hebrews 1:1-11)
If you don’t want to offend people’s religious tastes, talk about angels. Everybody loves angels—from your new age chiropractor to your spiritual-but-not-religious cousin. It’s nice to think about guardian angels, even if you have no other duty to God, to hope you have allies in the spiritual realm. It’s a nice idea to think that…
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No One Can Name Themself a Child of God (John 1:1-14)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR The Nativity of Our Lord + December 25, 2016 Text: John 1:1-14 Who has the authority to make someone a child of God? Who is a child of God, a Christian? Who makes that declaration? Not what family you come from, whether a Christian home or not. This…