Title: So, This Is Christmas
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Luke 2: 1-20
Christmas Sermon
I - The Simple Story (1 - 7)
II - The Stunned Shepherds (8 - 14)
III - The Special Son (15 - 20)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Simple Works
Some people like to take the simple and make it complex. Someone said, "My neighbor's car has on it a bumper sticker that says, 'Eschew obfuscation.' After about a half-hour with the dictionary, I found out that means, 'Keep it simple, stupid.'" Don't you think that the Christmas story would be so much better if we learned to keep it simple?
A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS IN AFRICA
Norman Vincent Peale writes of spending Christmas in Africa with his wife, children and grandchildren. He was hesitant but his wife told him he would love every minute of it. And yet, as Christmas day approached, he was troubled because everything Christmas was missing: being home, having a Christmas tree, people singing carols in the streets, hanging Christmas lights, snow crunching under his feet and of course all of the smells and aromas of Christmas.
But there was none of that there in Africa. We had been told there would be a special dinner out for us on Christmas Eve. Even this did not cheer me; I thought it might be an artificial occasion with everyone trying too hard to be merry. When I came out near dinnertime, I saw that in the eating tent a straggly brown bush had been set up, decorated with small colored lights and some tinsel and red ribbon.
We were called to the edge of the river, where chairs had been set up for all of us so that we could see, on the other side, two herders guarding their cattle, their spear tips gleaming in the gathering dusk. And at that peaceful, almost timeless sight, I felt something stir within me, for I knew that these herders and their charges came from a long line that had not changed in thousands of years. They belonged to their landscape just as the shepherds o ...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Luke 2: 1-20
Christmas Sermon
I - The Simple Story (1 - 7)
II - The Stunned Shepherds (8 - 14)
III - The Special Son (15 - 20)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Simple Works
Some people like to take the simple and make it complex. Someone said, "My neighbor's car has on it a bumper sticker that says, 'Eschew obfuscation.' After about a half-hour with the dictionary, I found out that means, 'Keep it simple, stupid.'" Don't you think that the Christmas story would be so much better if we learned to keep it simple?
A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS IN AFRICA
Norman Vincent Peale writes of spending Christmas in Africa with his wife, children and grandchildren. He was hesitant but his wife told him he would love every minute of it. And yet, as Christmas day approached, he was troubled because everything Christmas was missing: being home, having a Christmas tree, people singing carols in the streets, hanging Christmas lights, snow crunching under his feet and of course all of the smells and aromas of Christmas.
But there was none of that there in Africa. We had been told there would be a special dinner out for us on Christmas Eve. Even this did not cheer me; I thought it might be an artificial occasion with everyone trying too hard to be merry. When I came out near dinnertime, I saw that in the eating tent a straggly brown bush had been set up, decorated with small colored lights and some tinsel and red ribbon.
We were called to the edge of the river, where chairs had been set up for all of us so that we could see, on the other side, two herders guarding their cattle, their spear tips gleaming in the gathering dusk. And at that peaceful, almost timeless sight, I felt something stir within me, for I knew that these herders and their charges came from a long line that had not changed in thousands of years. They belonged to their landscape just as the shepherds o ...
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