Sermon Details
- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: December 8, 2013 | 10:00am
As a father now to a little girl, I’m quite certain that there will come a day not long from now when our home will be inundated with Disney Princess paraphernalia. Don’t worry, I am already getting counseling for it now, so I’m ready when the day comes. I am not unique in the fate that awaits me. Daddies of little girls around the world are summoned into the royal court of playtime for their daughters’ princess pageantry. One pastor I know tells this story:
I came home one day to find my daughter ready to play dress up. ‘Daddy,’ she said, ‘I am Princess Mary.’ Princess Mary? I’m not familiar with that Disney Story. And she said, ‘No, Daddy, it’s not Princess Mary from Disney, it’s from the Bible.’ Ah, I see, how could I be so stupid?
‘So if you’re Mary, does that make me Joseph?’ Nope. ‘Does Daddy get to be a wise man?’ And his wife chimed in from the other room… ‘Not even close.’ Well who am I then? And with a deadpan look she says, ‘You, Daddy, are the donkey.’
There are times when we approach Mary that we have in our minds this image of her as a kind of princess. No question, we should have a high view of her significance, but I’m not sure hers is the stuff of Disney animation. Because I think when we treat her this way, we lose some of the grit, some of the scandal of what this teenage girl who became an instrument of the most high God endured in surrendering her life to the invitation of God.
Download the entire transcript: Luke 1 26-38 Surrender
