As noted last week, Martin Luther wrote this Christmas message from Wartburg, where he lived in exile after the edict of the Diet of Worms in 1521 that excommunicated him.
“Think back to when you were in elementary school or perhaps high school. Who was at the dinner table at Christmas?”
Fifty-two weeks ago I tore out a page from my church bulletin and put it in my Bible.
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