It’s a Mad World / A Video and Sermon Helps for Advent 01
Advent season is arriving, which means that many of us who do not follow the lectionary in ordinary time begin to sync back up with it. Each week I’m going to try to put together a few thoughts to help...
View ArticlePerformance Riders, Doomsday Preppers, & Advent: Isaiah 40:1-11 (Advent 2B)
In the entertainment business there’s this thing called a performance rider, a written list of the artist’s demands. The promoter agrees to prepare the venue exactly the way the artist likes it. The...
View ArticleThere’s Something About Mary: Advent Offers us a Chance to Learn From Jesus’...
It’s become a tradition at my church to spend one Sunday talking about Mary each year during advent. For protestants in general, and evangelicals in particular, Mary has been avoided like the plague....
View ArticleSabermetrics and John the Baptist: A Sermon for Advent
In 1971 a Lawrence man named Bill James was the last person from the state of Kansas to be sent to fight in Vietnam. He spent 2 years overseas then came back to Lawrence to finish college at KU. By...
View ArticleThe Advent Decrescendo
For five or six years now we’ve been working this metaphor at my church. We’re trying to shape an imagination for Advent as opposed to American Christmas. It’s the Advent Decrescendo. I hope you’ll...
View ArticleAdvent is a Time for Hope: Oscar Wilde on Cynics & Sentimentalists
We live in a time of massive disorientation: the loss of unifying narratives, loss of faith in institutions, a renegotiation around truth (what is true and who decides), a clash between the religious...
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