Luke 21:5-9 Dear Partner in Preaching, Want to shake things up a little bit this Sunday and invite a fresh hearing of an extremely challenging Gospel reading? Then move the hymn of the day to before the sermon and sing “Joy to the World.” Now, I suspect I know what you’re thinking: why would we sing a Christmas carol in mid November? The truth is, however, that “Joy to the World” wasn’t originally composed for Christmas but was part of hymn writer Isaac Watts’ attempt to translate, and set to new music, the Psalms for Christian worship. Watts’ inspiration for this hymn was Psalm 98, the Psalm appointed for this day....
Mark 9:9-13
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As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead could mean. Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that...