Hope Presbyterian Church In Winston-salem Sermons

Series: Good News From MarkScripture: Luke 1:57-80 Sabbath is the stranger you’ve always known. It’s the place of homecoming you’ve rarely or never visited, but which you’ve been missing forever. You recognize it the moment you set eyes on it. It’s the gift that surprises you, not by its novelty, but by its familiarity. It’s the song you never sang but, hearing it now, know inside out, its words and melody, its harmonies, its rhythm, the way the tune quickens just before the chorus bursts. Its been asleep in you all this time, waiting for the right kiss to wake it. Life is meant to be much different — fuller, richer, deeper, slower — from what it is. — The Rest of God, Mark Buchanan But in fact the real difficulty, because the supreme mystery with which the gospel confronts us, does not lie here at all. It lies, not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of incarnation. The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was