Sermons

 This week, the first Sunday at the beginning of a New Year, we are starting…

Isaiah 9:6 (CEB)       1Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first…

Isaiah 9:6 (CEB) A child is born to us, a son is given to us, and…

When we hear the words of the opening of John’s Gospel in the third verse of “Silent Night,” it is crystal clear that these words of John are his nativity scene. There is no stable in John’s nativity.There is no genealogy list like in Matthew and Luke. No, John goes far further back to the beginning when Jesus already existed with God, when the universe was born through God’s Word, “‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” (Gen 1:3)

The Second Verse of “Silent Night” Silent night, holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight,…