Christmas Eve 2019
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 ...