Today is the beginning of Advent,
a time of remembering and celebrating the great work of God in the coming of
Jesus. So, today and the next three Sundays we're going to look at different
aspects of Jesus' coming. The goal here is for you to grow in your
understanding of and thus, hopefully, in your amazement at Advent. Jesus has
come, and He has come to change everything. While I have not worked out the
next three weeks' sermons, at this point it seems that the theme underlying
this series is going to be rooted in the idea of light. I decided on that
because of what's next in John's Gospel. Listen to John 8.12.
Again Jesus
spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not
walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’