The Anchor || Dr. Jeremy Berg

This is part two of a series of Advent reflections based on Jeremy’s 2021 sermon series contemplates the glory of the Manger in light of the mystery of the Transfiguration. Join Amanda, tired mother at the end of her rope, as she escapes to her Uncle Eli’s mountain cabin the week before Christmas. Prepare to be blinded by the light, swept up into an ancient Story, enveloped by a mysterious Cloud, encounter strange visitors, and be led along by the Voice and a the Morning Star.

PART TWO

8. Holy Huddle (Meditation)

9. Mysterious Cloud (Journal #4)

10. Are You Awake? (Meditation)

11. Morning Star (Journal #5)

12. Two Stars (Christmas Eve Sermon)

Afterword: Who is Amanda?

Postscript: Confession & Apology

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This is part one of a series of Advent reflections based on Jeremy’s 2021 sermon series contemplates the glory of the Manger in light of the mystery of the Transfiguration. Join Amanda, tired mother at the end of her rope, as she escapes to her Uncle Eli’s mountain cabin the week before Christmas. Prepare to be blinded by the light, swept up into an ancient Story, enveloped by a mysterious Cloud, encounter strange visitors, and be led along by the Voice and the Bright Morning Star. 

PART ONE

Foreword

1. Invitation

2. Arrival (Journal #1)

3. Seeing the Kingdom (Meditation)

4. Dazzling Light (Journal #2)

5. Blinded By the Light (Meditation)

6. He Chose Us! (Meditation)

7. Unexpected Visitor (Journal #3)

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A word for when life has knocked you down and laid you out flat. Lessons from a dying man in Acts 7. More at www.KingdomHarbor.com.

We conclude our Beatitudes of Bethlehem series with Jeremy's Christmas eve sermon from 2020 during lock-down. Come hear about a restless pastor swearing in a Holiday Gas Station parking lot, a stunned and confused prison guard, and a jailbird radiating a deep peace in middle of miserable circumstances. May we all discover the secret to deep and abiding peace amidst life's storms. Merry Christmas!

In this episode we discuss being "hangry" for God's justice to reign, looking at "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice" and Simeon who embodied such a hunger. Let us be thankful and more compassionate toward those among us who seem always "fed up" with all the evil and oppression taking place in our world. Their "hanger" reveals the heart of God and the heart of the prayer, "Thy Kingdom come!" More at www.KingdomHarbor.com. 

While our culture blesses the winners and overachievers, Jesus' Kingdom celebrates and elevates the humble losers and perpetually passed-over. This episode unpacks "Blessed are the Meek" and explores God's choice of Mary through whom to bring his Kingdom into the world. More at www.KingdomHarbor.com. 

In this episode, Jeremy invites us to join Jesus on the Mount of Beatitudes this Advent, becoming his "climbing companions," and pondering who is truly blessed among us. More at www.KingdomHarbor.com. 

This is part 1 of a series of reflections on how the nature of Jesus' upside-down Kingdom was anticipated in the unlikely cast of characters in the Nativity Story. Enjoy! More at www.jeremyberg.org. 

Join us this Advent Season for our series called, "Christmas on Mount Mystic" where we're explore the Incarnation in the light of the Transfiguration. Jeremy is creating a fictional backstory to this sermon series featuring a weary woman named Amanda who is in need of a vacation before she has a meltdown at a family holiday gathering. She gets an invitation from her great uncle Eli to spend an extended retreat at their cabin on Mount Mystic. But this will be no ordinary escape, and Mount Mystic will live up to its name. Today's episode gives a little teaser. Join us Sundays at 5PM at MainStreet Covenant Church @ St Martin's By the Lake beginning Nov. 28. 

Jeremy wades into some rough waters by exploring the defensive posture of many today who bristle at the thought of taking responsibility for and confessing the sins of our nation's forefathers. Such "rugged individualism" is out of step with a biblical worldview. Jeremy blows the whistle on the hypocrisy of those who want to claim the victories and blessings of people who lived long before us, but who don't want to own any of the sin and evil committed by our ancestors. If we want to claim Christ's accomplishment on our behalf 2,000 years ago, we need to also take responsibility for Adam's sin passed down to us. Christians, of all people in the world, should be the quickest to confess and own our sin, because we believe in a loving and gracious God who forgives. Or don't we? More at www.KingdomHarbor.com.  

Jeremy offers some thoughts on the significance and meaning of All Saints Day, and how many Protestants have neglected this topic and/or have a diminished view of the Communion of the Saints.