McCracken Sermon, 1963-12-29

ms i have been asked to say that mr hiring wilson all bob what they should go no to the massacres it takes just taken from the gospel according to local chapter to vast twenty and the shepherds return into glorifying and praising god for all the things that they had seen and had during the days following the twenty fifth of december that up to quite different reactions for christmas on the

one hand walked with anticipation preparation realize asian there are those who are born leaving and stay with us side of relief and demand it isn't christmas every week on the other hand that of those who is a big reader it is the frenzy and say off christmas it's fleeting patent a small boy gazing out around the toy department why he died said i wish it could be christmas every day and says is enacted showed matched by older people who are very fond

of a christmas festival and feel that it would be wonderful if it last longer if the spirit of christmas date the generosity the goodness the door and became after the date itself is passed after the christmas tree and the decorations holly and the ivy league feasting and merrymaking a pool for another year so redwood lay in sierra whose works were once collectors items once dated a picture of a fire burning on a bass the fiat blog with such a marvelous

radiance that when the painting was exhibited in the royal academy in london sparse upon scores of persons from far and near came to view it they are just sold it for a substantial sum of money a loss often few years the purchaser had to write to the artist please come and reunite your fiat it has gone out nancy and had views of a brilliant but fugitives big moment and the glory of the kind that had faded that story is a part of it would be wonderful if we could preserve the spirit of christmas throughout every day of the year but family is it not

of the anal in all time at all business is business once again politics is politics george edward bowes up and hold it december twenty six shots incense and the bar a fast and die with festive lights diminish so grant gives away there were a lot of songs and pageantry and market cries again constitutes the square and he whose spirit have us for one day seeing law consumed again no i don't am the year saw growing rift names anne thornley away

until we make him welcome through the year there is holidays and human nature being what it is what else can be expected you and die on autos at our base one day we're on the mountain top sun signing the air exhilarating another date we're down in the valley groping amid the mist and doctors we have also the elation and arrows of despondency france beginning experiences and decimating experiences that operators will go through periods when inspiration deserts them and they wonder whether they can reach again it's the same with glorious

artists authors musicians brass monkey in any meet you and when all liable to such ups and downs with some they are infrequent with some way a comic while there are others who within twenty four o's campbell's scaled the white house and say to the depths what to do about it this is the question and that is a non said i think and what the bible tells us about the bethlehem shepherds they hadn't ever to be forgotten experience i sort of remain life friends figuring expedience they were the recipients of a divine revelation and among the press the bulk in homage and their donation before the price the

record states that they returned to their homes and that costs glorifying and praising god but afterwards i was it was to me afterwards back in the work that they were in london ron prominent place where do our livelihood to be and the family to be provided thought fox debate tended the sheep to be she and buying and selling the divisions aid did that will die down that by tying of emotion and little by little until it became what it is on the majority of mankind are generic rosie at the met down many of us feel when christmas has come and gone

did they feel something of the soft also of costly did they were no different from us they were made as we're maybe they have that ups and downs it's not to be supposed that they felt like glorifying and praising god or all the dying day in day out here in year out until they died nevertheless there are some things that can be said about them things that must have made a world of difference to them and end them surely it cannot have escaped them that it was when going about their every day will it that then sort of the coming there's a great depth of

meaning unless the divine revelation was given not the priests bob saw in the village is on one ceremony of the temple not just brightens parting with amputees at midnight or one of the pages of order it back to a group of shepherds keeping watch although that frost the place of jolting is the place of vision pondering over what they had had and seeing the chaplains must have read a new feeling about their work must have viewed it in a different light see what this means for us as christmas although we go back to the office a classroom to stalk the camp of our house who closely cropped up in practical affairs though we know we

ought not to do it we are there to draw a dividing line between the secular and the sacred and two new comedies work as assets as separate apart from sunday and the public worship alvaro yet at its very beginning christianity and to us via our daily jj and claimed a hearing right there it came to dhs reverence for work as well as for life it is from our faith that we got the outcome of very angry in the light of god's will forests and glanced need of us and down the centuries there had been many who have taken the mess in doha they have awful god not only

of their spiritual mom ain't on sunday at the time you all the week's artist and conscientious draw out and they have believed that god accepts both that a man in business and women involved hulu since gray's arrest believe that they are fellow laborers with god and their work is done with ice motivation with us and the madness a negro engineer on a southern riverboat i asked how he kept everything in such perfect working order so immaculately clean and said i've got a pony and this belief is just to fall this belief that we

are fellow laborers with god it was the main act what that the christmas message was this open and the sheppards going about their tasks afterwards cannot have forgotten that must have made a difference to the way in which they thought about that want to the way in which they did that work this also we can see in both the job and they never get enough they had been very close to the dividing and then davis press was on that transcendence of god a devout jew hesitated even to speak of god by name instead spoke of his word is spent at the angel of his presence and there were those who thought that god was a loss and faraway

aware of might be the spiel a visit to lead to much it was even it was beyond redemption heat he still bring it to another update in and buy a sudden catastrophic and inaugurate a new have remembered us from a majority in greece and rome as well as in palestine god was a distant deity remote from the sorrows and ten as a man a passage in a possible visit and on sunday at a framing job but naacp that hadn't this sucker mc band that came to the shepherds the most wonderful news the world has ever had the good tidings of great joy the ancient front here between heaven and that crossed

top hat visit and redeemed his people in christ emanuel what a wonderful word in its meaning god had romney have to the sows of maine so that the separatists could say a lot later an apostle wrote in sheer exultation we haven't we saw with our lives we proclaiming the movie eternal life which was with the father and was made manifest the us never forgotten that die enough to tie human memory they must get to leave the oh thank god for the hearts so while branding well

and we not look back on expediency his memorable inspiring uplifting each brought us all so close to the divine gotten our final wave a redo anthony do you think on christmas eve on easter morning they have come to you as you have looked across the hudson river and watch the sun go down like the wall of fiat will spy i see a load they have come to you as you have listened to the climactic chorus handel's messiah weren't they is the lamb we have come to you in your capacity for love

god's greatest gift you're in the innocents and love your children and the joy it and piece of euro well to maintain the christmas ball go back to them those experiences live them all again thank god awful back to the day of your conversion back to do you joined the check back to the daily a moderate back to the birth of your first child track two hours when jaco strangely warm and your spirits dare do its debts i'm logged made that that would generate on body and soul of him it is rich and he went away again and it was added he went away again across the

jargon to the place where john of the us that times activist book where their man of god the breach back to the spot where he himself and be baptized back to the spot where he had been confirmed in his life's mission and had committed himself to it you know a place of war ii memories to which you can go back and going back to find jobs burning within you up on my face if we had an all holy man hours as this was a thing we can say about the shepherds not only have they been close to the divine they had seen the divine and which your mom meet

they never recognized the dividing in the familiar intimacies of lives in love with moderate childbirth and parenthood they found mary and joseph and the baby lying in a manger was a revolution that must have brought in the same thing they had no need to be told that claudius try and lifted up they had been brought up to believe that that god is transcendent just you think of the fortieth chapter by sap it does he use it's about the circle of the earth and its inhabitants out like grasshoppers who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spread some like dictate to do well in then came the night of nights been keeping

watch over their flock it was made known to them that got them it got that come into human life and human full blown of their own from each of their players already in loneliness and public warning to sorrow and suffering in the face of a little show i do they saw the attack i say at all not like i'm only must the status that memory it must've been under their conception of the divine i mean that mansion like yo ma and homelike and there that mentioned thought relearn that night that there is nothing on earth that is more truly was heaven then a little child

she again what that says to us the un wrote george bernard shaw be aware of the man whose bodies in this practice i know what so i don't mind people somebody especially an abstraction i just didn't do yet it about the scramble up of this where do some never find god now it can be so because they identify him with what is actually had removed from themselves he's a fast course the absent the growing to be what

they need is that god can be found in the common experiences of life in the frozen than one little things that make up our everyday existence the base things are and stevenson wrote a nearest breath and your last some light in your eyes duties at the path before you then do not prospered the stars but do live sitcom would accept it but the elite few days and daily bread was the sweetest things in life the sweetest and the divisiveness frances dawson was sure that there was not only a ladder look at advanced very good each

direction between heaven and shouting cross and when he thought of those who died failed to recognize the christ child them with him all that these devices daylight a bride he is yo estrangement faces that nests the man a splendid thing and it was always a puzzle to jesus that there was such great numbers of people who wrote this one gone with their theaters and seeing ice on program the mines as far as what he says the dividing all about team was rammed with heaven was full of whispers of god and this is why christianity is the most human of all

religions it is it is divinely don't miss that it concentrates the common ways it sheds an uncommonly on varied common role as it seems to be huey long as the vehicle author dividing it begins with mary and joseph and the baby line the mange him on me we could get that across in the church we haven't succeeded in communicating i communicate it would make such a death is an individual relations in that wheel relations or race relations at it make such a difference in madison johannesburg from and battling with its wall they're laden with

its wall reached at christmas and you thought about the significance of that one more thing we can say about the show and its implicit in all toppings and so he used to freeze for van often asked them it was i visited planet it was a word means we've got it like that was not a baffling enigma there was no need to grope and murdock one approach that would give meaning to existence with the coming of christ the son we had arisen and they could see the darkness was passed and that through light was shining on nazi and that they didn't have that ups and

downs they had no exemption from the hot they can be close to natural shocks the nation's air but i am saying that through all the vices its roots of their afterlife century in and raid health and sickness jaw i am sorrow sorrow sorrow that our minister eugene lobato and his family know today we've got something as that family has some that never could be taken from a hallway memory and have it inspiration and then out of the solo show up instead fox they had seen their price again and again right so they're like say and returning him am i to

bethlehem the house must have been when them this is our story for us to this is at a visit atlantic forest to the light is still shining without this has not been able to put it out price was a bargain into this world that we know he grew to be a man and he did his work and at the south london was crucified in it and he lives in and still not just a beautiful memory but a lot of influences the mosque the system they're variations very low and not on the system and mostly maine

we do not yet he opened with under him we've seen the assassination of a president we've read about children from rasping out of existence and a chat we do not yet seen all things were done there and buy we see jesus is the last of our policy if you gives dignity who are were they feel brings us close to the divine within him that we see the dividing and make your monday but our individualized and the light that highest in the british and some of us if you're that in is an audit teams all human destiny iraqi air christmas

as it goes from farm sits in our fleet they saw pops gone within us and that's where you are working the fox lot of pride and raising got because of the things we have fair and see that oh god follow with my blessing the preaching of i would help us to take it home to our hearts and my and when we go from this place maybe to live a more narrowly as know we pray amen