All Jerusalem was troubled

Kelley’s Chapel United Methodist Church — January 7, 2024

(Based on a sermon preached January 3, 2015, at First UMC Shelbyville)

Epiphany, by Fernando Gallego, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Some people think of Christmas as a one-day holiday, December 25. But Christmas under the liturgical calendar is a season, lasting 12 days — that’s where the song “The 12 Days of Christmas,” about that partridge in a pear tree…