College Park United Methodist Church

A popular old Christmas song begins, "There's no place like home for the holidays." We all long for that sense of "home." Perhaps that's why people who don't usually go to church, do so at Christmas. We are all searching for home.

My niece is stuck in the DeGaul airport in Paris, trying to get home. He parents are not getting much sleep tonight. A parent's love might not be a perfect example of God's love, but I can't think of one much better.

Here is a reading for the lighting of the advent candles for the 4th Sunday of Advent

Snow makes the world look different. Familiar things like lawn chairs, trash cans and bushes take on new shapes. Sounds are muted. It is as if even our own familiar back yards have become strange and new. Christmas too, is about seeing things differently.

An anonymous parable explaining the incarnation as told by Paul Harvey.

While some conservative talk show hosts complain about the "War on Christmas," that seeks to measure how "Christmas friendly" a retail outlet may be, there is another movement that asks whether businesses have anything to do with the true meaning of Christmas

Mica 5:2-5 includes the description of a great shepherd who tends an unruly flock- the people of Israel. But this shepherd is not out front leading some obedient line of sheep. Instead it tells of a hands on shepherd who gets his hands and his feet dirty, doing what shepherds must do to care and f...

Some days it seems as if I am pulling the full weight of both churches behind me. I forget that I am not the shepherd of this flock, Christ is.

"Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to." Doris Walker in Miracle on 34th Street.

Luke 1:26-38 tells us that when Mary found that she was pregnant, an angel came to tell her that she was "highly favored." A young woman in a society that favored older men. "With child" without benefit of marriage. She could look forward to either being stoned or banished from her community. Ei...