Reflections for

First Sunday after Christmas, Dec 27, 2015

1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26; Psalm 148; Colossians 3:12-17; Luke 2:41-52

Blogging Toward Sunday

Musical preaching

Luke 2:41-52

Dec 26, 2012 by Gracia M. Grindal

For sermon-prep help, I frequently look at hymns, paintings, novels, poems, etc. Also Bach cantatas. Meinen Jesus laß ich nicht, written for the first Sunday after Epiphany, has intrigued me with its interpretation of Luke 2:41-52.

Living by the Word

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Luke 2:41–52

Dec 18, 2012 by Gracia M. Grindal

I love this story about Jesus and his parents and am astonished by the author’s deep understanding of the human condition. Mary and Joseph were facing the adolescent years with a most unusual child, and yet we have only this one glimpse in scripture of that time in their lives.

Features

Recovering kindness

An urgent virtue in a ruthless world

Oct 18, 2012 by Christine D. Pohl

Kindness overlaps significantly with several of Paul's other "fruit of the spirit." What makes it a distinctive mark of the new creation?

From the CCblogs Network

Jesus learned

Sep 26, 2012 by James F. McGrath

I have been talking a lot lately about how Biblical inerrantists are forced to twist the Bible in order to defend their doctrine about the Bible.

People with a certain way of viewing Jesus do the same to Luke's Gospel.

American Soundings

In praise of snow

Feb 28, 2012 by Rodney Clapp

Snow can be tiresome, even deadly, but it can also be a sign of holiness and of hope.

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