As Christmas draws near, Pastor Joe Tyrpak digs into Luke 1:26-56 and encourages us to focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary, but not for the reasons you might think. Here's a snippet from the sermon:
“I think we all react against what we consider the Roman Catholic heresies regarding Mary. It's called Mariolatry; the raising of Mary to the status of Jesus . . . But the passage we just read in Luke causes us to focus on Mary. And we should come away (if we read the passage rightly) with …“All generations will call me blessed.”
“Are you comfortable calling Mary the blessed virgin? If you're not, you're probably over-reacting.
“Jesus is the Savior. Mary is not. But the mother of the Messiah is an exemplary believer … her humility, her knowledge of the Bible, her passion for God's Kingdom should be things that all of her Son's people emulate and imitate. Scripture doesn't encourage us to fixate on her, but Scripture does call us … to follow her example.”
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Joe has served as a shepherd at Tri-County Bible Church in Madison, Ohio since 2005. He's been a believer in Jesus Christ since childhood. He grew up in Vermont, North Carolina, a short bit in Moscow, but mostly in the greater Philadelphia area (making him someone who proudly...