One Thousand Words on Home for the Holy Days
This is the text of my Christmas Eve sermon. It is based upon Luke 2:1-7. In editing it, I finished a set of corrections, and saw that the word count was exactly 1000 words. So I decided to stop right there. Merry Christmas - Enjoy your home, where ever it is. Quick survey. How many of you travelled “a distance” to be here? I don’t mean here, as in church – by the way, thanks for coming - but here as in Longwood/Withee /Greenwood? You’ve come here to celebrate Christmas. How many of you are back after spending time away, such as in college, or your work takes you away. Hands up please? Thank you. To all of you, welcome home and Merry Christmas. Joseph and Mary headed to the town from which his family came, Bethlehem, not so much for the holidays but because In those days Caesar Augustus declared that everyone throughout the empire should be enrolled in the tax lists. … Everyone went to their own cities to be enrolled. Since Joseph belonged to David’s house and family lin