Pre-Sunday Notice

“Psalm 96; Luke 2:1–20


Friends , year after year during Advent, many of us Christians lament about the secularization of Christmas. We complain how

Mary is the second most important person in the story of Christmas. Artists, more than theologians, have understood her prominence

In the nineteenth-century, an American artist by the name of Edward Hicks painted 100 times , a tableau he titled,

Among the many gifts God pours into the lives of His children HOPE. God is in the business of providing

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Apart from the anticipated great food , turkey stuffing , pumpkin pie , I

Luke 21:5–19 challenges us to look beyond the grandeur of human achievement andthe illusion of permanence that often captivates our

In Luke 20:27–38, Jesus confronts the Sadducees, a group who deny the resurrection, by revealing a deeper truth about God’s

The contrasts could not be more dramatic: a rich man with an exquisite wardrobe, having a great time enjoying the

Walter Bruggemann, a well known theologian once argued that we believe more in a myth of scarcity than in the