In worship we closed our Advent journey with a refreshing of the promises given by God to God’s chosen people. God has promised, since before Abraham, through the sin-filled life of David, to the life of Blessed Mary, and now to our age. God’s promises include being able to do what we doubt as possible […]
We continued our journey in Advent and focused on our preparation and the work of the messenger. Isaiah helped remind us of the hope he offered to his generation – restoration after exile and return to being the chosen people of God. Yet we heard the story of John (the Baptist) and his offering of […]
In worship today we heard the story from the Prophet about God who will provide comfort in the midst of our battles. God is there with us and is strong enough to defeat our foes at the same time God is able to comfort the least in creation. We looked at how the good news […]
In worship we heard from Jesus: “Beware, keep alert! …for God is coming… keep awake.” That view was placed against or alongside the words of Isaiah. Not the words of comfort we remember from Isaiah, but the words of lament and accusation – calling on God to come down… to not forget us… to not […]
Yet, our worship still reminded us that there was part of the Christmas story to play out. After 3 weeks of John the Baptist we got to hear the story of one of the more unlikely characters in the Christmas story – Joseph. Joseph is a bit of an enigma, he is very human and […]
Today marked the continuation of our journey with John the Baptist, although this week his role is from the borders of the story. John, who has been faithful doing his job and pointing at the coming Messiah wonders if Jesus, who doesn’t look anything like the expected Messiah, is really the one. John’s future did […]
We’ve been looking at the season of Advent as a time of preparation. While, on the one hand, that is a good thing; yet on the other, considering we know the rest of the story (Jesus’ birth celebrated at Christmas and Easter) it is hard to truly prepare. Yet the gospel holds John the Baptist […]
What does the future look like? An age old question… Today, as we begin our preparation, we are reminded that, “About that time no one will know.” Our scripture was future focused and helped set the stage for where we are going in the future. Today’s readings helped remind us that what we are preparing […]