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the day-to-day is like a whirlwind A sermon for the third week of Advent on Isaiah 61 It is now the third week of Advent. The season draws short . Christmas approaches .   …Are you ready ? Is the tree up? What about the lights? Have you got all your presents? And are they wrapped? If there was ever a year to assume all this was already done , this would be it. This year folks have been decorating earlier than usual. Amanda and I were no exception. Things have been so gloomy this year, we actually began setting up before Thanksgiving. But what about all the other stuff? The stuff that really matters. Have you made arrangements with your family for Christmas this year?   Saturday Night Live came out with a skit about parents losing it when their adult children told them they wouldn’t be coming home for Christmas. And the satirical newspaper, The Onion, beat them to the punch with the headline, “Mom Completely Understands That Coming To Thanksgiving Is Risky And That You ...

past the point of hanging 'round too long The holy Gospel according to St. Mark the 6th chapter ! Well, this week wasn’t the best week to be an Iowan. Was it? …I thought about asking who participated in the caucus, and then I thought, “I can’t do that.”   But then I thought it’s be funny to ask who participated in the caucus, and then while hands were raised, I’d yell, “now everyone else , get ‘em!” But , in a country increasingly defined by whether you’re blue or red, our insistence that in Jesus Christ even that division has been overcome, is one of our most potent witnesses . …Back to the caucus, though. Because there’s a very apt sermon-illustration in there.   By now it’s been determined that the cause of the fiasco was a coding error.   But , judging by how agitated everyone got, over what turned out to be nothing more than a technical issue, it would seem as though this whole ordeal tipped into some inexcusable terr...