New Year’s Sermons
While I am still on vacation I have been thinking about the sermons I will be putting together in January. I am going to do a series of sermons on Joseph.
January 13th “Joseph Had a Coat”
January 20th “Joseph and the Goat”
January 27th ”When Joseph Got to Gloat”
I think Joseph is one of the most interesting characters in the Bible and it’s important to think through some of the biblical traditions and the stories we have heard so much about.
The sermon on the 13th will take a look at what we have been given and how we are to use our gifts. Every one of us has a “new coat” that has become our blessing and our burden. Our new coat has “many colors”. It marks us and gives us identity.
On Christmas Eve I thought of the comparison between “Jesus and the swaddling clothes” given him by the Magi, and “Joseph and his coat of many colors” given him by Jacob, his father.
Joel Kershaw will be preaching on the 6th and he may put his “build a sermon” ideas into this spot.
I am still on vacation and will return to work on January 8th.
If you have thoughts on this sermon series or any other subject write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. Click on the empty space and my email address will pop up.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
