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January 2008 |
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January 6, 2008 - Epiphany - "home by another way" - Isaiah 60. 1-6; Matthew 2.1-12 - Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll, Th.M. - "Matthew is not the first one to imagine three rich wise men from the East coming to Jerusalem. His story line comes from Isaiah’s poem recited to Jews in Jerusalem about 580 B.C.E. These Jews had been in exile in present-day Iraq for a couple of generations and had come back to the bombed-out ruinous city of Jerusalem. They were in despair. Who wants to live in a city where all the buildings are torn down and the economy has failed, and nobody knows what to do about it?"
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January 13, 2008 - The Baptism of the Lord - Matthew 3.13-17 - "Vocations" - Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll, Th.M. - FPC Owensboro, "Today, in the rain and in scripture, we are invited to attend a baptism. Not a Christian baptism, per se, because the Christian church hadn’t happened yet, but a baptism by the first baptizer himself, whose name is John. And there is a difference."
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January 20, 2008 - 2nd Epiphany - "COME & SEE" - John 1.29-42 - Rev. Jonathan E. Carroll, Th.M. - FPC Owensboro, "Church bells chime. Two muscle-bound men stand arms-crossed in front of a Gothic cathedral. A gay couple approaches holding hands. "Step aside, please," say the muscle-bound guards. They speak similar words to an African-American girl, a Hispanic man, a young man in a wheelchair. Then, just as we realize that the two large men are "church bouncers," the scene fades to black and the tag line reads: "Jesus didn’t turn people away. Neither do we."
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