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The Messiah For All Epiphany of the Lord from the book EXIT: INTERSTATE 0 Louis H. Valbracht Ephesians 3:4-6 |
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The hymns, "As with Gladness Men of Old" and "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning," are two beautiful hymns for the Epiphany. There is only one trouble with these beautiful poems set to music. They are both historically and biblically incorrect.
You know, we like to sing about the "Twelve Days of Christmas," when "my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree." So we go through the whole song to the twelfth day of Christmas. But I venture to say that if I were to ask you what's the twelfth day of Christmas, right off, there probably would be half of you who wouldn't know. Usually, even though we sing about the twelve days of Christmas, we never make it. By that time, our trees are down, the decorations are all packed in their usual places for another year, the children are back in school, and the January White Sales have begun in our ...
This Epiphany of the Lord sermon, The Messiah For All, is based on Ephesians 3:4-6 and relates to Epiphany of the Lord of Cycle of the lectionary. This sermon is excerpted from the book EXIT: INTERSTATE 0. SermonSuite offers online sermons and professionally published sermons, lectionary sermons, non-lectionary sermons, children's sermons, sermon illustrations, worship resources, preaching resources, sermons on prayer, prayers, Christian drama, lectionary worship, lectionary workbooks and homilies. ...