SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, December 4, 2022

Dear Friends in Christ –

It’s been hard for me to settle into a groove, to find a way into this season of Advent. I know Advent is a prescribed time for waiting, anticipating, perhaps even yearning for what only a miracle can provide – an antidote to the incessant bickering and blame and violence and vulgarity. How sad that it must be necessary to shake us out of our complacency and ennui. Yes, sad that the creatures made in the image of God retreat to, retire to, or are relegated to colorless lives of desperation.

Can’t be jolly when the wild fire’s bearing down on your friend’s home or there’s another provocation from the east or the west to deprive displaced people of dignity, another storm lurking, another genocide, or another charge of sexual misconduct appropriately redrawing the lines of what is cute, funny or demeaning.

So, we need a miracle. We need to be reminded that the God of creation draws near. Come be strengthened. Come be reminded. See you in worship!

In anticipation –