These are a few of my favorite things.
This Sunday I’ll be speaking at the Tuckerfirst Contemporary Service.
The Sunday after Christmas is tricky business. With the incredible American Christmas escalation finally having peaked just days before, dare one mention the Christmas story at the risk of being boring and repetitive? Or would a talk on December 27th without an element of Christmas come off as irrelevant and uninteresting?
The trick here is to find a binding, relevant connection between the Christmas story, the message I want to deliver, and the ministry I help build. So, what do the three have in common? I really like the idea that, as we say on the Unterwegs wall, “God’s grace is like a party – and everyone is invited.” Unterwegs, like Jesus, operates with an open guest list… Shepherds and kings are invited to celebrate his first birthday; The Wedding Feast in his parable (Luke 14) is filled with “the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.”
So, there’s our starting point. Let the writing begin.