The Coming of the King - a podcast by St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, EPC

As I write this, I am thinking about Thanksgiving. I’m trying to send in blogs, sermons, slides, so I can get on to preparing for the Thanksgiving Feast tomorrow. I must say, I have the elven magic on me earlier this year than normal. Addy and I broke our family’s standing tradition of putting our tree up after Thanksgiving and put it up two weeks ago while Teri was out visiting her mother. Space matters, so it feels like we have a jump on Christmas this year. As I was thinking about this, it hit me—the only reason we can be really thankful at Thanksgiving is because of Advent, so I have justified my actions. 

 

Anyway, we start out looking at Luke’s narrative this week and will continue this through Advent. We will be looking at just the first seven verses, but it occurred to me that what is found here could be the true story of the whole Bible. There is a lot here…Apologetics, I mean Luke spends four verses grounding the story he is telling in space, time, and history, and taken from people he could “fact check” with. He then opens up the story of the human condition and shows us the limits of human ability, even when we have the correct forms in place. Finally, we see the God who works in the places that feel like death, so that we will know, it is all grace.

 

I prayed this week that our Thanksgiving Feast would tell a better story, a gospel story, and I am praying that for all of us this season. What a time to celebrate Jesus! I hope to see you Sunday!

 

One more thing, remember we don’t have Sunday school this Sunday. It will resume the following week on December 3. 

 

Blessings,

 

Jim 

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