Hope for Peace (3 of 4)
Series: Hope has Come
Michael White
Luke 2:8-20
Statement: Hope has come because Christ brings peace to sinners.
I often preach about my dog. I hope you don't mind. She just provides so much material that it's hard not too. I talk about her so much she should get royalties from all this. I should give her a cut of my paycheck.
Some guys use works of literature to help aid in their sermon writing. I just use my dog.
Now one of her nicknames is the vacuum cleaner because that's precisely what she does. After a meal with 2 toddlers there's often more food left on the floor than in their stomachs. So we let in the ''vacuum cleaner'' to clean whatever mess is left over.
And being the voracious eater that she is she'll just go from one crumb or morsel to the next, licking it up with such tenacity, that she often overlooks other nearby pieces of food strewn asunder by my children.
And i will often point at something she missed- directing her to show her where it is. I'll say bella- go get it! there it is!
But instead of actually looking at what I'm pointing to, she just looks at my finger! Usually I literally have to move within inches of the object I'm pointing at for her to notice it.
This is the same mistake people make when reading the Christmas story.
People think of a manger-NT Wright calls it ''Christmas crib- the most famous feeding trough in history''- they think of it surrounded by shepherds and wise men- and farm animals looking on- though Lukes Gospel doesn't even mention them.
It's within this little stable with a thatch roof, fluffy flakes of snow and falling outside- a fire keeping everyone warm, all centered on the manger. Looks kind of like rural Pennsylvania.
We see it on Christmas cards and nativity scenes. It is has been immortalized in A Charlie Brown's Christmas, which my kids thought was super boring.
But to get caught up in a manger and forget why it was mentioned in the first pl ...
Series: Hope has Come
Michael White
Luke 2:8-20
Statement: Hope has come because Christ brings peace to sinners.
I often preach about my dog. I hope you don't mind. She just provides so much material that it's hard not too. I talk about her so much she should get royalties from all this. I should give her a cut of my paycheck.
Some guys use works of literature to help aid in their sermon writing. I just use my dog.
Now one of her nicknames is the vacuum cleaner because that's precisely what she does. After a meal with 2 toddlers there's often more food left on the floor than in their stomachs. So we let in the ''vacuum cleaner'' to clean whatever mess is left over.
And being the voracious eater that she is she'll just go from one crumb or morsel to the next, licking it up with such tenacity, that she often overlooks other nearby pieces of food strewn asunder by my children.
And i will often point at something she missed- directing her to show her where it is. I'll say bella- go get it! there it is!
But instead of actually looking at what I'm pointing to, she just looks at my finger! Usually I literally have to move within inches of the object I'm pointing at for her to notice it.
This is the same mistake people make when reading the Christmas story.
People think of a manger-NT Wright calls it ''Christmas crib- the most famous feeding trough in history''- they think of it surrounded by shepherds and wise men- and farm animals looking on- though Lukes Gospel doesn't even mention them.
It's within this little stable with a thatch roof, fluffy flakes of snow and falling outside- a fire keeping everyone warm, all centered on the manger. Looks kind of like rural Pennsylvania.
We see it on Christmas cards and nativity scenes. It is has been immortalized in A Charlie Brown's Christmas, which my kids thought was super boring.
But to get caught up in a manger and forget why it was mentioned in the first pl ...
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