Media from December 2025

Media from December 2025

Delivered from Every Trouble

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2025 | FIRST SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS YEAR A Delivered from Every Trouble Isaiah 63:7–14 | Gradual | Galatians 4:4–7 | Matthew 2:13–23 — Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. In the 1954 Christmas Film, White Christmas — one that my family and I watch every year — Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney encourage us in song to face sleepless worry-filled nights in this way: If you’re…

Kiss the Son

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2025 | CHRISTMAS DAY YEARS ABC Isaiah 52:7–10 | Psalm 2 Kiss the Son (Psalm 2) — Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. What is best news you have ever received? When I ask that question, some of you don’t even need to think. Right away you have the answer. Maybe it was the day you got into the school that you wanted to or were…

Christmas Eve 2025

Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. In the days of God’s own choosing. At just the right time. God sent us His Son. As we have confessed, the world is filled up with darkness. The curse of sin and it’s sorrows and thorns have truly infested the creation. We see it everywhere around us. Oh yes, sometimes we successfully ignore the brokenness of this world. We have lots of…

Re-claimed by Immanuel

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2025 | FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT YEAR A Isaiah 7:10–17 | Psalm 24 | Romans 1:1–7 | Matthew 1:18–25 Re-claimed by Immanuel (Matthew 1:18-25) — Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. There’s a fancy Greek word that’s used to describe the appearance of God. It’s called a theophany.  And throughout the Old Testament, a theophany, especially a sudden, unexpected theophany, is considered a frightening and deadly…

Re-Claimed and Transformed

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2025 | THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT YEAR A Isaiah 35:1–10 | Matthew 11:2–15 Re-claimed and Transformed  (Matthew 11: 2-15) — Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. In our Gospel reading for today, John the Baptist is in prison. Herod has jailed John at the request of his wife, Herodias. Herodias was furious because John had criticized her marriage to Herod. Why? She was already married to…

Re-Claimed through Baptism

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2025 | SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT YEAR A Isaiah 11:1–10 | 2 Kings 16:2-8 | Psalm 1:1-3 | Matthew 3:1-12 Re-Claimed Through Baptism Grace, Mercy and Peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. — The image that we begin with in Isaiah’s prophecy is the image of the stump. Think of a mighty tree, with a huge trunk and great branches, with beautiful leaves. And then think of it being…