We are called to share the good news of the coming of God’s kingdom, called to live God’s way, rather than the world’s way. But as followers of Jesus, what is it we are supposed to do? In this Sunday’s
On this fourth Sunday of Advent in RCL Year C, we are looking at Matthew’s telling of the Christmas story. Connecting Jesus’ birth to ancient prophecies, we see Jesus as the culmination of God’s plan of salvation. Jesus is God
Last Sunday, we heard about John the Baptist boldly crying out in the wilderness. He proclaimed that “the kingdom of heaven has come near” and demanded the people repent and reorient their lives toward God. This weekend, we once again
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,