Today and in the days ahead, we will pray for the moral courage to demand action so that we do not have to write this letter ever again.
The Gospel good news is that there are no ifs. There are no buts. No fine print.
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the New Testament, is not a myth or moral metaphor. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the New Testament, is FACT.
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The light of Christ shines into the darkness we have been living in since March 2020.
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God did not choose the pride-filled, the historically strong, or influential at the first Advent.
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The good ‘ole days are what they used to be.
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The crucifixion of Jesus finally gave meaning to what we mean by the word ‘sin.’ The crucifixion of Christ is not just another of humanity revealing its inhumanity; the crucifixion is humanity making the most ultimate sort of rejection and, in doing so, rejecting itself.
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The disciples are the apostolic mirror through which we locate ourselves in the story. Their missteps are our missteps. Their feet in the mouth moments of embarrassment are our moments.
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Peace upon peace upon peace.
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No matter how hard David tried, no matter how hard we try we are unable to domesticate, to control, to keep at bay the movement and presence of God.
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In his Capernaum campaign, Jesus took the first-century how-to adult handbook and threw it out the window. In one out-of-town trip with his buddies, Jesus overturned one of the backbones of social order.
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Like the Ethiopian Eunuch, you, and every other person to be dunked, sprinkled, or poured over with this water have been clothed in new life, in the amazing grace of Jesus Christ.
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We are sustained through this very community, through being the body present to somebody - through word and sacrament, in the physical presence of Jesus Christ.
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The good news is not that we must ascend up to God by our own good deeds or spiritual striving; the good news of the Gospel is that the one who met Moses in a burning bush and spoke through Elijah has come down to us in Jesus Christ and will come again.
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Jesus gave a simple instruction, but when the church gets that instruction wrong, the results are anything but miraculous or a sign that the Kingdom of God is at hand.
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The Hope found in our baptism is an invitation to clothe ourselves in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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We continue to look to the heavens today. We petition God to come down from on high, liberating us, healing us from the things that stand against us. The earnest prayers of the people of God today are not unlike the prayers lifted up by Israel as they awaited the birth of the Messiah.
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This Advent let God’s grace illuminate the world around you while we wait… and wait.
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