Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Let Earth Receive Her King

Even pastors have a hard time talking about Christmas without the sentimental, or cultural, or political B.S. attached to the holiday.

Most pastors decry the commercialized B.S. of Christmas: but of course, the holiday is the year's biggest "sales-pitch" for churches, same as for Walmart.

Why wouldn't it be ?  The Church invented Christmas, and holds the patent.

So this is best sermon I've ever heard on Christmas: that Christ's birth is God's intervention in human history to save mankind from merciless death by self-rule.  That our HOPE is not in our "kings of men," neither Saul, nor Caesar Augustus, nor Herod, nor Trump.

That God enacts in Jesus' human flesh His promise to every human being, that His unlimited love governs heaven and earth, now and forever, in "righteousness, and peace, and joy."

Sermon starts at the 31:24 mark:  Oh Holy Night

A second sermon, that Christ's birth heralds peace for mankind, starts about 6:05:  Peace on Earth