Posts in Advent
All I Want Is a New Beginning

December 15 2019

Isaiah 61:1-11 — All I want is a new beginning. Jesus Christ, the Lord, is the new beginning. He has begun a new beginning. At this moment he is busy completing the new beginning through his Holy Spirit and his followers in this world. He will complete the new beginning when he comes again and makes everything new.

This is part of our Advent 2019 series, All I Want for Christmas, based on selected passages from the book of Isaiah. The idea for the series title, All I Want for Christmas, is borrowed from the article by Matt Erickson, “Recovering the Wonder of Christmas: Four pathways for preaching during Advent,” in Preachingtoday.com, https://www.preachingtoday.com/skills/2019/november/recovering-wonder-of-christmas.html. The sermons, however, are original.

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All I Want Is Some Good News

December 8 2019

Isaiah 40:1-11 — All I want is some good news. There is good news. The best good news ever. The Lord has come. The Lord is coming. God’s Kingdom has come. This is the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. We as God’s people are called to share this good news, to tell the world, “The Lord is coming back because he has come!”

This is part of our Advent 2019 series, All I Want for Christmas, based on selected passages from the book of Isaiah. The idea for the series title, All I Want for Christmas, is borrowed from the article by Matt Erickson, “Recovering the Wonder of Christmas: Four pathways for preaching during Advent,” in Preachingtoday.com, https://www.preachingtoday.com/skills/2019/november/recovering-wonder-of-christmas.html. The sermons, however, are original.

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All I Want Is for God to Show Up

December 1 2019

Isaiah 63:15-64:12 — Where is God? God’s people are no longer experiencing God’s presence. God seems to be missing in today’s world. All I want is for God to show up. We must repent and God will show up. God shows up all the time.

This is part of our Advent 2019 series, All I Want for Christmas, based on selected passages from the book of Isaiah. The idea for the series title, All I Want for Christmas, is borrowed from the article by Matt Erickson, “Recovering the Wonder of Christmas: Four pathways for preaching during Advent,” in Preachingtoday.com, https://www.preachingtoday.com/skills/2019/november/recovering-wonder-of-christmas.html. The sermons, however, are original.

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