excerpt - sermon Sunday January 1, 2016 – Second Sunday of Christmas Luke 2:21-52 Jesus Is Presented in the Temple & the Boy Jesus in the Temple ... 22 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord”), 24 and they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord,

Last year for Lent, my family did a plastic fast. We tried to eliminate as much plastic as possible from our home, and then tried to not get or use any more plastic for forty days. It was hard. It was not 100% possible, but even doing our best was hard, and eye-opening. First, we got rid of all the plastic we could from the house. We tried to recycle old plastic bags, but found out that at that time in our area, plastic was too cheap to make recycling bags possible — no vendo