Kevin Makins - Setting the Table: Advent V - Away in a Manger

Luke 1-2

The thirteenth sermon of our 23 week series “Setting the Table” - exploring the narrative of Scripture.

An Angel appears, a virgin is pregnant, no room at the inn, swaddling clothes, manger, star, shepherds, wisemen. 

We all know the Christmas story. And yet sometimes we can hear it so much that we cease to hear it. Sometimes it can become so familiar that it loses it’s teeth. 

The incarnation was anything but cute.

Kevin Makins - Setting the Table: Advent IV - Home

1 Kings 8, Ezra 6, Nehemiah 9, Haggai 2

The twelfth sermon of our 23 week series “Setting the Table” - exploring the narrative of Scripture.

The Israelites had been taken into slavery. Their world was sent into chaos, their boxes smashed; everything they had ever known changed in a moment - and then they are allowed to return to their land. They go back, they build up the city walls, they restore the temple; but it’s just not the same anymore.

Sometimes we return home, only to realize that it’s not really home anymore.