A great many Christian churches across the world will gather this week for Ash Wednesday services, to mark the beginning of the Lenten season, a 40 day season (not counting Sundays) of preparation leading up to Easter. In preparation for Ash Wednesday service each year, I gather up the dry palm branches used during Palm […]
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If you are like me, you may come from a tradition that does not celebrate Epiphany or that views many of the Christian feasts with suspicion. In recent years I have come to appreciate the Christian calendar and to see beauty in marking time by the acts of God in history. Bobby Gross writes about
The following is the manuscript of a sermon that Pastor Josh Moore originally preached at Red Door Church on December 7th, 2025. You can also watch the sermon here on Red Door Church’s YouTube Channel. Introduction I’m sure you’ve received a scam phone call before. I was talking to someone just this week who said
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Advent brings out an interesting mixture of emotions for me. On one hand, I remember the Decembers of my childhood and the anticipation of Christmas, presents, and an obscene number of cookies. As I’ve grown older, though, I’ve been initiated into “grown-up Christmas.” Finances can pinch. Weather can threaten. But more than anything, Advent is
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Maybe the greatest challenge of the Advent and Christmas season is to keep its true meaning in front of us. What is Advent really about? Why the trees and the presents and the caroling and the parties? Why all the hullabaloo? The word advent means “coming.” What’s coming? Who’s coming? Well, when we open the
Our refrigerator died again this week. We saw the writing on the wall when it started making a clunking sound a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully, up here in Vermont where it’s really cold in the Fall and Winter this is not a huge problem since we can just put our food out on our
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