Sermons by Darryl G. Klassen

“IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”: FIND YOUR HOPE   “It’s a Wonderful Life” has been a holiday staple for as long as I can remember. It is consistently ranked in the top 100 movies of all time and is one of the most popular Christmas movies, even though it is not even about Christmas.              If by chance you have never seen this movie I will give you a brief synopsis before playing you a clip:             George Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, is a good man who through various circumstances is called upon to put the needs of others before his own needs. Bailey dreams of traveling the world and building things but when his father dies he reluctantly remains in Bedford Falls to run the family business, a building and loan company. Through a mishap, George’s Uncle Billy loses $8000 of company money just before the bank examiner arrives to audit the books. The competition, Henry Potter, is a wealthy and ruthless banker who takes advantage of this situation to have George thrown in jail and ch

THE INCARNATION   John 1:1-14   One word kept popping into my thoughts as I thought about the core truth of Christmas:  Incarnation .              How do you explain the incarnation? Yes, God became a man. But really, is that adequate? I have tried to articulate the wonder and the miracle of God coming near and find that words fail to express the reality of it. I have spoken of this mystery to congregations before expecting a reaction and instead a response of silence. Perhaps that’s “awe.” Or perhaps we just don’t know what to do with “God become flesh.”              That’s probably to be expected. Leon Morris wrote on this text saying that two things stand out.  “The one is the astonishing fact that the Word of God, true God as He is, yet took upon Him man’s nature. The other is the even more astonishing fact that when He did so men would have nothing to do with Him,”  ( John ,  NICNT, 93 ). John tells us two things in this text that he doesn’t want us to miss: the good news of the i