A delightful insight from my friend Father Dane Boston interrelating the message of the prophets with the “Good News” of the Gospels.
Since taking up my duties as Rector of Christ Church in Cooperstown, New York, I am sorry that I have not found much time to update my blog. I hope very much that that will change in the New Year. But even so, on this Fifth Day of Christmas, I wanted to share my sermon from Christmas Eve.
God bless you in this holy season and in the year to come!
(“The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds”, by Thomas Cole, 1833-34. The sudden in-breaking of the Angel Gabriel into a dark, dead scene perfectly expresses the unexpected arrival of life into our world and our hearts.)
A Sermon Preached on Christmas Eve, 2016
By the Rev’d Dane E. Boston, Rector, Christ Church, Cooperstown, NY
Texts: Isaiah 9:2-7; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20
“Marley was dead: to begin with.” That’s how Charles Dickens opens his well-loved story A Christmas Carol. “Marley…
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