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Advent 4A Matthew 1:18-25 December 22, 2019 St. Matthias We are down to just 3 days before Christmas and clearly the signs are everywhere.   50% off already low prices – 3 for the price of 1 when you use the right credit card.   We’ve had black Friday which actually began on Thanksgiving Thursday and ran through the Sunday after.   Then there was Cyber Monday which apparently set a new sales record this year.   There are the usual television Christmas specials – TV Guide lists over 450 from today through Christmas Day and you will have already missed the first 30 or so by the time you get home from Church.   I looked through a list I found online and saw the old favorites like It’s a Charlie Brown Christmas , It’s a Wonderful Life , White Christmas , and How the Grinch Stole Christmas .   I also saw several I don’t plan to watch – Invasion of the Christmas Lights on TLC – Discovery Channel’s A Very Moonshiners Christmas - and of course The...

Advent 3A Matthew 11:2-11 St. Matthias December 15, 2019            I wrote this sermon while watching it snow in Grand Rapids, Michigan.   I also watched it snow this week in upstate New York, in Burlington, Vermont, and even in the French Alps.   The thing is, I never left our house in Birmingham thanks to the miracle of YouTube and Live Stream Cameras.   It’s amazing!   It seems that all over the world they have these cameras in some of the most beautiful places and you can look in on what’s going on at that very moment from your computer.   You can see people get off a cruise ship in Miami or swim in Hawaii. There is a live camera at Bryant Park in New York City, and you can watch people ice skate.   One of my favorite sites is in a place called Skarsvag, Norway which is a fishing village way up on the Arctic Circle and at 2:00 pm in the afternoon there it is totally dark.   They g...