by Rev. Ashley Harness | Dec 24, 2020 | sermons
My first thought when I read this text this year, was “No, don’t go, Mary and Joseph! Don’t go, shepherds! Shelter in place!” My friends, it has been a strange year. That phrase, “shelter in place,” didn’t even exist in our shared imagination last Christmas Eve. And...
by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Dec 24, 2019 | sermons
I love Christmas Eve… as a child of the North, I love the warmth amidst the often-bitter cold. I love the soft yellow light of candles and Christmas trees illuminated after a 4 pm sunset. I love the stars that shine even amidst the light pollution of the city—as if...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Dec 24, 2018 | sermons
Listen here: Since I last preached on Christmas Eve, we have had a baby born into my family. And we now have a toddler. Which makes me wonder, what was Jesus like when he was a toddler? If he truly was both fully divine and fully human, incarnate as we say when we are...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Dec 9, 2018 | sermons
Scripture: Luke 3: 1-14 A couple weeks ago, we had a SpringHouse-wide adult education time during which we sat in small groups and talked about what this whole season of Advent was about for us, how we understood who Jesus was when we were kids and who this Jesus we...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Dec 2, 2018 | sermons
Scripture: Luke 21: 25-36 Today is the first Sunday of Advent. It’s the Sunday we light the candle of hope on the Advent wreath and ask ourselves “Who are we waiting for?” We settle into the Advent darkness and wait the next month in holy anticipation, in preparation...
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