Don’t You Know
(Sermon preached December 15, 2024 – Third Sunday in Advent) Mary’s singing about a revolution as she announces the dethroning of the powerful. Luke 1 gives us a Mary that is anything but meek and mild. She resists her status as a lowly girl and births a revolution of love.
Like A Child
(Sermon preached December 8, 2024) Isaiah 7:10-14 and Matthew 1:18-25 speak about the promise of a child to be born who will be “God with us.” Jesus pointed to children as signs of God with us. How do we receive the child?
The Next Right Thing
(Sermon preached December 1, 2024) Isaiah 40:1-11 and Mark 1:1-15 both speak of preparing a way forward toward the Kindom of God that God imagines for creation. And yet, sometimes a hope this big can seem too out of reach and become discouraging. We need our big hope for direction, but our journey is one of doing the next right thing, one after another. We can build our resilience and find joy as we “micro-dose” on hope.