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The Rev. David Lewicki
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Joy Comes in the Evening

Luke 2:22-40

1st Sunday after Christmas - Year B

January 01, 2012

The Rev. David Lewicki (PCUSA)

Last year was the first Christmas that the bulk of a congregation's pastoral care needs fell on my shoulders.  I was warned by other pastors to prepare myself--the need for my presence would mysteriously increase right around the holiday.  I would get "the calls."  And sure enough, beginning two days before Christmas, two broken hips, a nursing home-related family crisis, an accelerated kidney failure.  Those were just the physical emergencies.  For reasons that remain a mystery, Christmastide is a time when, deep within our subconscious--at the place where the body and the spirit intertwine--people prepare to die.

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The Rev. Dr. Kenneth Carter
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The Hand of God on the Shoulder of a Troubled World

Isaiah 61:1-4,8-11

3rd Sunday of Advent - Year B

December 11, 2011

The Rev. Dr. Kenneth Carter (UMC)

I'm going to reveal something very personal about myself here at the outset.  When I was a child, one of my favorite programs was HeeHaw.  A few of you may remember that show.  It had a lot of bluegrass and country music.  Folks were laying around in the hay, thinking about going down to the corner of town to watch the stop light turn green.  It had other characters that must have made an impression on an adolescent boy, but I won't get into that. 

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Getting the Sand Out of the Gears

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The Rev. Dr. William L. Self, senior pastor of Johns Creek Baptist Church, Alpharetta, Georgia, takes a look at the debilitating role of fear in our lives.

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An In-Between Time

The Rev. Joy Yee (CBF)

The Rev. Joy Yee, pastor of Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church in San Francisco and moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, considers what is expected of us as we live in the in-between time full of tears, work, and hope.