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"Christmas" Tagged Sermons

The Aftermath of Christmas

When Christmas is done, the presents all opened, the dinners all eaten, normal life beckons. The question is, for the follower of Christ, what is normal supposed to look like? Joseph’s experience of the aftermath of the first Christmas helps us to reflect on exactly that question with three insights, Find your joy in the right…

God has spoken

in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son (Hebrews 1:2) The beginning of the letter to the Hebrews gives us another perspective on Christmas, a God’s-eye view so to speak. Reminding us that one of the great blessings of the incarnation is the profound increase in the intimacy with which we…

Not a message, but a mission

In our carol service, with readings from Genesis 3 and 12, Isaiah, Luke and Matthew, we tried to recapture the whole of the Christmas story to help us remember, once again, that Christmas isn’t just a message from God but a mission undertaken by God.

Zechariah and Elizabeth

it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you … so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught (Luke 1:3-4) There’s a great need to recover Christmas as an historical fact, too often it seems to have become little more than a beautiful fable, a children’s story…