i awoke and i imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts A sermon from Isaiah 9 Today is Christ the King Sunday, the last gathering of the church year. After today, we begin another trip through the wild ride of counting our days as the church would have us. But that’s not all today is, is it? Today is also the last Sunday before Thanksgiving . And then Black Friday . And then that mad dash to Christmas. Until, finally, we come to that heap of exhaustion on New Year’s Day. Today, then, is something of a tipping point. We stand at the precipice of those last moments before the holiday season falls entirely into the clutches of the advertising world. In just a few days, each day will be little more than one more occasion to buy more stuff and accumulate more goods. All in the quixotic bid to ‘have yourself a merry little Christmas.’ So how about it, then? On these last moments before the season of overpriced gadgets, jammed airwaves, packed parking lots, and even more crow...