O Holy Night (5 of 5)
Series: Christmas Carols
Tony Thomas
Micah 5:2
Merry Christmas, everybody! It’s been cold the last couple of days, hasn’t it? It was minus fourteen on Thursday with a wind-chill of minus thirty-three, but today it’s a balmy plus four! Woo-Hoo!
I’ve got a high school classmate named Mike Nelson who lives in Tennessee. I whined a little bit on Facebook about the weather and he posted a remark I thought you’d enjoy: ‘‘Tony, it’s so cold here in east Tennessee that we opened the deep freeze and sat inside to warm up!’’
Thanks for showing up. It’s the last Sunday of 2022 and we’re concluding our series called ‘‘Christmas Carols.’’ Personally, I’ve really enjoyed the series, but everybody’s entitled to his own opinion. Before I entered semi-retirement my last series of sermons was called, ‘‘Route 66.’’ I had always wanted to preach through the Bible so I spent one Sunday on each of the books of the Bible. I absolutely loved it until the custodian found a note in a hymnal and it was obvious I had at least one critic. That note read, ‘‘Honey, if you wake me, I will kill you!’’
You don’t know how encouraging a congregation can be until you find one of those love notes! Reality can be a cruel teacher! I do, however, feel better than a certain father I read about. His son wasn’t sure if Santa or Dad was the real Santa. He put cookies/milk by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, and a Bud Lite. In the morning the cookies and milk were gone, but half the beer was still in the can. ‘‘See, Mom, I told you Santa was real!’’ His Mom replied, ‘‘How do you know that?’’ That boy said, ‘‘If Dad was Santa he’d have drunk the whole can!’’
I’m closing the Christmas series with a look at ‘‘O Holy Night.’’ The lyrics were written by a Frenchman in 1847 and the song was an instant hit in Europe. But it created quite a bit of controversy because the Catholic Church had hired a Catholic poet to write the lyrics. Later, he defected. Some of the more pious prie ...
Series: Christmas Carols
Tony Thomas
Micah 5:2
Merry Christmas, everybody! It’s been cold the last couple of days, hasn’t it? It was minus fourteen on Thursday with a wind-chill of minus thirty-three, but today it’s a balmy plus four! Woo-Hoo!
I’ve got a high school classmate named Mike Nelson who lives in Tennessee. I whined a little bit on Facebook about the weather and he posted a remark I thought you’d enjoy: ‘‘Tony, it’s so cold here in east Tennessee that we opened the deep freeze and sat inside to warm up!’’
Thanks for showing up. It’s the last Sunday of 2022 and we’re concluding our series called ‘‘Christmas Carols.’’ Personally, I’ve really enjoyed the series, but everybody’s entitled to his own opinion. Before I entered semi-retirement my last series of sermons was called, ‘‘Route 66.’’ I had always wanted to preach through the Bible so I spent one Sunday on each of the books of the Bible. I absolutely loved it until the custodian found a note in a hymnal and it was obvious I had at least one critic. That note read, ‘‘Honey, if you wake me, I will kill you!’’
You don’t know how encouraging a congregation can be until you find one of those love notes! Reality can be a cruel teacher! I do, however, feel better than a certain father I read about. His son wasn’t sure if Santa or Dad was the real Santa. He put cookies/milk by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, and a Bud Lite. In the morning the cookies and milk were gone, but half the beer was still in the can. ‘‘See, Mom, I told you Santa was real!’’ His Mom replied, ‘‘How do you know that?’’ That boy said, ‘‘If Dad was Santa he’d have drunk the whole can!’’
I’m closing the Christmas series with a look at ‘‘O Holy Night.’’ The lyrics were written by a Frenchman in 1847 and the song was an instant hit in Europe. But it created quite a bit of controversy because the Catholic Church had hired a Catholic poet to write the lyrics. Later, he defected. Some of the more pious prie ...
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