A Positively Poetic Priest

Greetings! Glory to God! Merry Christmas! I suppose I have already made some first impression on you all already can't change it now, huh? I thank you all for coming this evening to celebrate the Feast of the Nativity here at St. John's and Grace. I am thrilled to be celebrating this joyous occasion with you. We all know from life experience that first impressions are important. The way we greet people,  for the first time ever,  or for the first time in a day, makes a huge difference in how our relationship is going to be. If I got up here and yelled at you,  you wouldn't feel that great about me and our relationship would probably suffer for it. If your spouse texted you something mean every morning without saying Good morning, it would cause some problems in your relationship. But when someone greets you nicely and happily it shares the joy and makes our relationships better. When we listened to the gospel passage for ...

Children's Sermon To start the sermon this evening, I'd like to have all the children, and children at heart, join me at the front of the church.  Good evening. Are you all excited about Christmas Eve? (Yes!) Do you know the story for tonight? A long time ago, there was a little boy who was born who was named Jesus.  Jesus was God's Son. And when he was born, Angels from heaven told a bunch of sheep and shepherds that he had been born  and to go visit Jesus and then to tell everyone else. See angels are messengers and their job is to bring people good news So I need your help tonight. Have you seen the Creche over there? It is a picture of the story I just told you. It has Jesus as a baby, and his mother and Joseph and angels... but it doesn't have all the sheep. I brought a whole flock of sheep with me tonight to be part of the story,  but they scattered all over the church!  See they have been here before...