Advent 2005:

Links to Sample Sermons on Year B Lectionary Texts

First Sunday in Advent, November 27, 2005

Gospel Text: Mark 13:24-37

Scott Hoezee, "When the Rooster Crows"

Joanna Adams, "Hope for the World"

Second Sunday in Advent, December 4, 2005

Gospel Text: Mark 1:1-8

John Buchanan, "Just Like the One I Used to Know"

Leonard VanderZee, "The Voice in the Wilderness"

Recommended Sermon on John the Baptist: "Have You Ever Heard John Preach?" By Fred Craddock, in A Chorus of Witnesses, Long and Plantinga, eds. Eerdmans, 1994.

Third Sunday in Advent, December 11, 2005

Gospel Text: John 1:6-8, 19-28

John Buchanan, "Born to Set Thy People Free"

Fourth Sunday in Advent, December 18, 2005

Gospel Text: Luke 1:26-38

Joanna Adams, "Fear Not"

Craig Barnes, "How Can This Be?"

Scott Hoezee, "Strangers on the Earth"

Christmas Day, December 25, 2005

Gospel Texts: Traditionally either Luke 2:1-20 or John 1:1-14

On John 1:

Craig Barnes, "Manger Light"

Scott Hoezee, "Home"

On Luke 2:

Scott Hoezee: "The Shepherds Returned"

Michael Lindvall: "Plenty of Room at the Inn"

Recommended Sermon: "God's Daring Plan" by Barbara Brown Taylor, in Bread of Angels, Cowley Publications, 1997.

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