Thanksgiving: Cause for a Common Thanksgiving? (A Jewish-Christian Thanksgiving Service) (Exodus 2:23-3:8; Psalm 103; Philippians 4:4-13)

This sermon has a tough assignment: find common ground for thanksgiving among a mixed crowd of Jews and Christians gathered for a Thanksgiving service. What is that we have in common? The answer is that we all, as humans, suffer, but we also share a story of a God who has remembered us. He has seen and heard and known our suffering. He has stooped down to deliver us out of all our affliction.

Advent: Meet Mary

God does not function with whistles and sirens. God's strategy was not to blitz Rome, charging through the forum to the senate, with a warrior Messiah on a white stallion. No, as this Christmas sermon reminds us, God chose to come to the womb of a sensitive teenage girl who was willing to grow in her understanding of the things of God, who had a vision, at least partial, of what God was about.

Advent: This Child Was Different (Hebrews 1:1-2)

In Jesus, God has invaded humanity and things can never be the same again. God who had formerly spoken through the prophets has spoken to the world a final word in His Son. How different is that Word from any uttered before or since. This Christmas sermon lays out the ways that Jesus revealed God in a different and ultimate way.