Category: Preaching
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Advent 2, Year C–Malachi 3:1-4
We read this passage in our worship service last Sunday as the prophetic passage for the first Sunday of Advent. It is one of my favorites. Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Malachi 3:1 Much is happening here, but it starts with the promise of a messenger. I…
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Advent 1, Year C–1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
The Epistle reading for the first week of Advent seems whittled down for my taste. I would prefer it take a bigger bite and include the earlier material in chapter 3 about afflictions, because the theme of afflictions matches the other readings as all the travail leading up to the Day of the Lord and…
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Advent 1, Year C–Luke 21:25-36
The gospel reading for the first week of Advent plunges us into the heart of some of Jesus’ scariest words, near the end of the Olivet Discourse. Jesus is teaching in the temple, in the shadow of his own cross. By the end of the week he will be dead. You can feel the weight…