Read the Lectionary Texts  Angels! Everywhere you turn during the Christmas season, you bump into angels! Angels show up on Christmas cards. And in Christmas carols – “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!” “Angels We Have Heard on High.” “The First Noel, The Angel Did Say!” “Angels From The Realms of Glory!” Angels are everywhere at Christmas! Angels are in Nativity Pageants, often posing as little girls wearing white bathrobes with silver tinsel in their hair! At our house, an angel is the topmost decoration on the Christmas tree! Christmas is full of angels! An angel speaks to Zechariah, prior to [READ MORE]

Read the Lectionary Texts It’s really starting to feel like Christmas, isn’t it? I find myself getting all filled up with the Christmas spirit, and I just feel like singing all the time. Do you? Let’s sing a song together, okay? We wish you a merry Christmas! We wish you a merry Christmas! We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year! Good tidings we bring to you and your kin! We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year! Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. It’s good to feel merry, and happy. But what if you don’t? What [READ MORE]