Same Christmas
Sermon preached by The Rev'd Curtis Farr on Christmas Eve at the 11 p.m. Choral Eucharist.
My friend, Becky, posted a picture on her blog of her Christmas tree—a lovely thing decorated with white lights, white and red ornaments, a ...
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God is There, No Matter What
Many things can get in the way of the happy, sparkling Christmas celebrations to which we aspire. The Dollar family has perfected one such thing—the Christmas stomach bug that tears its way through the family, leading to days of e ...
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Christmas at St. James's
You are invited to celebrate the birth of Jesus with us. Have a very merry Christmas!
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Joe, we need to talk…
Advent 4A: Matthew 1:18-25Matthew has been busy on Ancestry.com, but you wouldn’t know that from the lectionary because we skipped over the first seventeen verses of Matthew. All you really need to know is that Abraham had I ...
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Books to Read and Give: My Favorites of 2013
As many of you know, I fell on the ice a couple of weeks ago, and ended up with broken ribs and a few other injuries. So instead of spending the first weeks of December baking, shopping, and decorating while ...
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What I learned
This past Friday my mother, Jan, died after a short but feisty bout with pancreatic cancer. In the last days of her life mom was surrounded by her wonderful husband of 57 years, all four of her children, two of her ...
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What Were You Expecting?
Advent 3A: Matthew 11:2-11
There John is, rotting away in a prison cell—decapitation imminent. Not too long ago he was in the wilderness eating weird food and wearing weird clothing screaming about repentance and how Jesus is the Lord a ...
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I Wish That I Had Jesse’s Roo-oo-oot
Advent 2A: Isaiah 11:1-10The “root of Jesse” comes up a few times in Sunday’s readings. Isaiah prophecies that the messiah will be a descendent of Jesse Instead of doing midrash, this week we’ll look at this concept and see ...
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Leaving Rapture Theology Behind
Advent 1C:Happy New Year! Liturgical, that is. This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent, the first day of the church year. As the colors on the altar change from green to purple (or sarum blue, for some), the ...
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The Darkness before the Dawn
There is no coincidence that Christmas comes when it does on the calendar. The winter solstice (the day of the year with the least amount of sunlight) in the northern hemisphere falls on either Dec 21 or 22 every year - this ...
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