Deep Joy For A Shallow World
Sermons For Advent, Christmas & Epiphany Based on Gospel Texts, Cycle C
Richard A. Wing

For those of you who have come here feeling lost, I have good news for you. For those of you who have come here willing to get lost, I have even better news. The good news is "fear not." The God we worship specializes in finding lost people. (from Chapter 2)

I would like to invite you to do the most difficult thing that can he asked of our culture, and that is to do nothing. I invite you to approach this night with open hands and hearts and do nothing. (from Chapter 5, Christmas Eve)

I bring you good news of deep joy in a shallow world. No matter how many fears and failures you bring to this place ... no matter how difficult it has been to get through an average day ... no matter what ... God is leading us to deep joy that is eternal in a world that is focused on entertainment. (from Chapter 10)

Dr. Richard Wing captures the listener's attention from the opening line in each of his sermons. But it doesn't end there. His gripping messages continue to lift and inspire as he brings new depth of understanding to old texts.

Sermon titles include:
Made New By Interior Design -- Luke 21:25-36, Advent 1
Made New By Getting Lost -- Luke 3:1-6, Advent 2
Made New By Taking A Different Road Home -- Luke 1:39-45, Advent 4
Yours For The Asking -- Luke 2:1-20, Christmas Eve/Day
Living By The Calendar Instead Of The Clock -- Luke 2:41-52, Christmas 1
Is It Better To Catch Or Be Caught? -- Luke 5:1-11, Epiphany 5
... and more!

Richard A. Wing is currently minister of First Community Church, Columbus, Ohio. A gifted preacher, administrator, teacher and pastoral minister, he is in demand as a keynote speaker. Selected by Dr Scott Peck to be one of the original 18 Community Building Workshop leaders, he continues to serve in that capacity. Dr. Wing has taught seminary classes on evangelism and church management. In 1996 he was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. His travels have included work camps for the poor in Mexico and Jamaica, tours of Europe, India, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and the Holy Land, as well as speaking tours in Korea and throughout the United States.