Epiphany || Follow the Star

Sunday, December 31, 2023 || 11:00am

Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol || Pastor

Isaiah 60:1-6 & Matthew 2:1-12

Who or what do you follow? Who or what most influences the choices you make? Who or what do you allow to be part of your discernment when you are making a big decision?

This Sunday is Epiphany Sunday, the day on which we read about wise people from the east who are seeking to find the child "who has been born king of the Jews." They follow a star to Jerusalem and then need the help of prophets to lead them to Bethlehem where they present gifts to Jesus before going home another way.

Join us this Sunday for a thoughtful time of worship that will include Christmas carols, poetic reflections, and space to ponder how Jesus might play a larger role in every aspect of our lives in the new year upon us after relinquishing anything that has a hold on us that is not of God so that we, too, might go home by another way.

Lee Schriber