Merry Christmas For All CreationRev. Doug Floyd The Surprise Party Christmas appears like a midnight surpriseAngels ignite shadowy skies.A voice heard in the winter cold,“God is young but man is old.” Joseph and Mary put to the testTired and aching but nowhere to rest.The cold winter wearies like a constant thresh.A virgin gives birth to…
Advent 3 2020Rev. Doug FloydIsaiah 65:17-25, Psalm 126, 1 Thessalonians 5:12–28, John 3:22–30 The alarm of coming judgment has resounded through our texts since the Sunday after All Saints. The prophet Amos told us that the Day of the Lord is a day of darkness and not light. Zechariah declared that the sound of the…
Advent 2 2020 (Evening Prayer)Rev. Doug FloydIsaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 85, 1 Peter 3:8-18, Mark 1:1-8 Advent begins at the end of the world. We might also say that Advent takes us to the very edge of the world. It takes us to the place where the world is collapsing, a world is collapsing. It takes…