Christmas poses a yearly challenge to those of us who have heard the story since we were children. After you have attended 20 or 30 or 40 Christmas plays, and after you have listened to at least that many Christmas sermons, and heard, and sung every Christmas carol a few hundred times, what more is left to be said that hasn’t been said before?
If you know about Christmas at all, you know about Mary and the angel Gabriel, about the dangerous journey to Bethlehem, about Caesar’s decree, about Herod’s insane jealousy, about the inn with a “No Vacancy” sign, about the angels and the shepherds, and about the mysterious Wise Men from the east, and the last-second flight into Egypt. All of these stories are so well known that when we hear them again, we don’t really hear them at all because we’ve heard them all before. We hear, but we don’t hear.
I don’t want us to be like the Innkeeper who missed the Messiah, or the Bethlehem townsfolk who went about their business with the Messiah right around the corner. In this sermon we look at Luke 2, at the first Christmas, to help us remember its significance.
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