Merry Christmas!!! The poetry slam clip below contrasts the challenges of our world with the Good News of Love within us. Christmas shares the source of that Love, come to us in Word and flesh. By our baptism, we receive the incredible gift God offers and God’s Word becomes part of our flesh. “There’s a place in one of Martin Luther’s nativity sermons where he asks something like, “Do you know what a stable smells like? You know what that family would have smelled like after the birth when they went out in to the city? And if they were standing next to you, how would you have felt about them and regarded them?” [Luther] is saying, ‘I want you to see Christ in the neighborhood you tend to despise – in the political party you despise, in the class of people you despise.’ Christmas is the end of thinking you are better than someone else, because Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you. (Timothy Keller, adapted [by Philip Yancey] from Mary sermon, 2001) https://youtube/watch?v=itvnQ2QB4yc
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 19:51:01 +0000
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