This is our worship service for Sunday, December 29, 2024.
This is the First Sunday after Christmas.
On this Sunday following Christmas and the story of Jesus’ birth each year, we fill in the years since his birth up to his baptism when he was 30 years old.
This year we hear of when Jesus was 12 years old…
It seems Jesus stayed behind on the family’s annual trip to Jerusalem, and Joseph and Mary have to travel back to Jerusalem to look for their missing boy. I wonder where they eventually find him…
As we begin this morning, we recall that throughout Advent, we lit one more candle each Sunday as we came closer to Christmas Eve. This year, there is an overlap of religious calendars, and we are able to light other candles – ones which go all the way back to Maccabean Revolt which took place about 150 years before Jesus was born…