On this second Sunday of Advent, we hear both a beautiful, optimistic promise from Isaiah 11:1-10, and an aggressive word of warning from John the Baptist in Matthew 3:1-12. As people of God living in the year 2022, surrounded by
This week’s sermon for the first Sunday of Advent is largely a repeat of my Advent 1 sermon from December 1, 2019, although of course without the reflections on the imminent arrival of our first child! In writing it in 2019,
Once again there’s no video or audio recording, but here’s my message from what should have been the fourth and instead turned out (due to tornado warnings last week) to be our third and final midweek Advent worship service of
It’s the fourth week of Advent, and today, we’re looking at God’s unexpected choices in the Christmas story. Our Scripture readings are Micah 5:2-5a and Luke 1:46b-55. Part of the inspiration for this sermon came from Tim Brown’s reflection in
It’s the third week of Advent, and today’s theme is joy. Our Scripture readings are Philippians 4:4-7, Isaiah 12:2-6, Zephaniah 3:14-20, and Luke 3:7-18, all of which celebrate the promise of God’s salvation entering into the world. Because God is