The Divine Crash

Recently I found myself in a discussion with another pastor about the meaning of Christmas.  This pastor told me that it didn’t matter if the Christmas story was true.  That what mattered was the meaning behind the story.  He went on to say that the virgin birth didn’t matter because it is impossible to have happened [...]

So, once again this year we did the family thing and went to go buy a christmas tree. Being new in town we went to a tree farm we have never been to before.  We bought a tree that looked nice and came home. After getting it and putting it up we noticed that the [...]

The Christmas service finished a sermon series on the popular Myths of Christianity.
You can listen to it at the bottom of the post or feel free to download it on iTunes as a podcast. Here are the notes to my sermon:

Hello, thank you for being a part of this blog adventure I have been on for over a year.  If you came here looking for my Christmas Eve or the 26th sermon you will have to wait until next week.  I will post them as regular posts next Wednesday and Friday.  Because I am celebrating [...]

Dear Jesus, in less than 10 days we will celebrate your birthday but yet so many people do not feel a joy because they feel so much pain.  God, in the midst of the pain of this world we need you to break in to this world like you did back then.  Maybe if we [...]

This week my church hosted a community-wide service as a kick-off to the Christmas in the Village that takes place every year in our little town.  As a result I had an extra opportunity to share Jesus was 135 people who would not normally have set foot in the church.  As a second result [...]

Yesterday was Christmas.  I actually woke up first, so I came downstairs, took the dog out, and had coffee.  By 8:30 my son woke up, he is 21 months.  After I got him out of his crib I changed his diaper and it was a mess.  There was poop everywhere, that diaper was so full. [...]

Last night we held a “Christmas Adam Service.”  I call it that because Adam came before Eve.  Holding our service on the 23rd allows the congregation (and the pastor) to spend Christmas even with their family.  For this service I didn’t really give a sermon, instead I read a kid’s book to the people.