After pausing for a day to give thanks, our nation now resumes its ongoing and greater concern over what we don’t have and what we want. With Christmas exactly one month away from this Sunday, we go full throttle.

This time of year earnest ministers such as myself are generally telling people, “Dial it back. Don’t be so greedy, so needy.

But again and again the Bible asks us “What do you want?” Theese days, these times of holidays, the upcoming seasons of Advent and Christmas all ask us an important question: “What do you want?” Let’s listen to that question so that we can hear our deepest and surprising answers.

Scripture Lessons:       II Samuel 23:1-7; Mark 10:35-52

Sermon:           “All I Want for…”

The Rev. William Lovin preaching

Anthem           “Alleluia”        Ralph Manuel

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