David Sandel

Friday, December 27, 2024 Third Day of Christmas Feast of Saint John, Apostle and evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three French hens We are writing this so that our joy may be complete. We played Christmas Jeopardy, and I buzzed in on the question, “How many piping pipers are...

Thursday, December 26, 2024 Second Day of Christmas Feast of Saint Stephen, first martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Stephen’s sacrifice On the SECOND day of Christmas my true love gave to me … Or, in our most recent universe, this is the day AFTER Christmas. Will this festival continue...

Wednesday, December 25, 2024 The Nativity of the Lord Christmas Day The First Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) We hear the bells of Christmas day Hark! The sentinels raise a cry, together they shout for joy for they see the Lord restoring Zion. Break out together in...

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Christmas Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Poetry from above Christmas scripture showers us with words as well as music: Mary’s Magnificat, Simeon’s Song, and today there is Zechariah’s priestly, historic, fatherly hymn of praise: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;         for he...

Monday, December 23, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Chesterton at Christmas Thus says the Lord God: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me. And then suddenly there will come to the temple … yes, he is coming, but who will endure the day of...

Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Confidence Bethlehem-Ephrathah. Too small, but from you shall come forth. What is this confidence that small things so often possess? They are indomitable. They never give up. They win. They are alive in all the right ways. This...

Saturday of the Third Week of Advent,  December 21, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sabbath Hark! My lover! Here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills. The Seventh-Day Adventists have made Saturday their Sunday. For other reasons, members of this church live some of the longest...

Friday, December 20, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bethlehem I will not ask! I will not tempt the Lord! King Ahaz of Judah is afraid of the surrounding nations, which have banded together to attack him. He will make a pact with them to save his skin. Isaiah demands...

Thursday, December 19, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Grandpa There was a certain man from Zorah, of the clan of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren and had borne no children. An angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Though...

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Family The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has...