When the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler preached this sermon she was the Senior Minister of Riverside Church in New York City, and we recorded it in the church’s chapel on a chilly December morning. These days she is the interim pastor of the Community Church of Honolulu, Hawai’i; the newly published author of Beautiful and Terrible Things, her memoir; and the Founder of Invested Faith, a non-profit that helps churches at the end of their institutional life live on in new and creative ways. Her sermon from John 1 is called, “A Timeless Christmas,” and it has a quality that will make it good news whenever you hear it. (Plus, she ends with a story about Joshua Bell that no one who hears it will ever forget).