Scripture
Luke 1:38
2 Samuel 7:1-5,8-12,14,16; Psalm 89:2-5,27-29; Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38
Sermon Week/Year
That much beloved Christmas classic, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” has been making the rounds these past few weeks. Just like Christmas itself, it used to come but once a year. But these days, you can find it playing on television networks nearly every day of the Christmas season. And yet, it never gets old. The Christmas message has a way of doing that. As I am sure you will remember, at the pivotal moment in the story, we see the crotchety old Grinch experience his great Epiphany as the cartoon’s captivating narrator describes it (Boris Karloff): “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps,…
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