01-05-25

ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS
January 5, 2025
Though tomorrow is technically Epiphany, the 12th Day of Christmas, we will be celebrating it today at Cypress Creek Christian Church. As I hope all of you are aware, we have decided to cancel this year’s Camel Walk. To be honest, I’m the absolute worst at making the decision to cancel anything. I tend to be the optimist, thinking all storms will skirt around us. But in this case, what the weather folks were putting under the list of possibilities was enough for me to say that it is better to be safe. 

But today, on this Epiphany Sunday, I will begin a new sermon series entitled: Time To Get Serious About The Harvest, focusing on the Fruit of the Spirit and the implications for our relationships. As I look at the first Fruit of the Spirit, Love, I will be inviting the congregation to imagine what the journey of the Magi was like, including the ways love might have been manifest during their quest. This sermon will require us to step outside of what we know from scripture and allow our curiosity to explore what might be called the gaps within the stories of our faith. Following the example of the ancient Rabbis, the early church examined with curiosity where the stories of the Bible left the reader feeling as if the story needed a bit more information. 

Continue to provide me with a spirit of curiosity, O God, for you are the One who inspired the stories of the faithful, ancient stories that were intended to form every generation. Amen.