As I am writing this, I am distracted by the big project at home, which is packing for a vacation to Eastern Europe—Budapest, Prague, and Vienna. But as you are reading this, we have returned. And its Advent.
“Tis the Season”
What I’m suspecting I’m going to find in these three cities is the complications and consequences of long histories involving epochs and empires—the Romans, the Magyars and other barbarian tribes, Christianity, the muslims and the Ottoman Empire, The Hapsburgs, nationalism and WWI, Nazis and WWII and concentration camps, Communism and the Cold War. There will be museums and monuments capturing these moments in order to celebrate or to apologize. I’m looking forward to Prague the most because it is the one major European city that was not bombed in the world wars and it has escaped modernist architecture.
“Tis the Season” is the sermon series. We celebrate God taking on human flesh to deliver us from sin, satan and death.
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