Note: This sermon was originally delivered on the Second Sunday in Christmas on January 2, 2022 and references the following texts: Jeremiah 31:7-14, Matthew 2:1-12 Merry Christmas! I know, I know, the world outside the church has moved on… but we still have several more days of Merriment ahead of us, and I for one am happy to have all the Christmas I can get right now. So I say again: Merry Christmas! This week I was watching a video where four friends were making arguments to one another for why a given Christmas movie was, obviously, the best Christmas movie of all time. I’ll confess here that I am not a fan of Christmas movies in general. But I was interested to hear how these four friends, who run a YouTube channel that discusses history and literary or media analysis, would discuss the genre. True to form, they developed a scoring system by which the three “judges” would assess if the film the presenter was discussing was a “good” Christmas movie. They judged o...
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