December 5, 2021, The Second Sunday of Advent, The Rev. Chrissy Westbury.
December 5, 2021, The Second Sunday of Advent, The Rev. Chrissy Westbury.
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost – Exodus 3:1-15; Romans 12:9-21; From “Who Are We?” to “How Do We?” – Who is Moses, really? The vulnerable baby found in bulrushes and raised in the very courts that tried to kill him? Runaway refugee? Or successful business and family man? There’s an old Hebrew table of a rabbi…
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost – Genesis 28:10-19a; Romans 8:18-25; Surely the LORD is in This Place and I Did Not Know It – I am a parent, as are many of you. Really anyone who has spent a significant amount of time around very young people knows all about developmental stages and the hope and despair…
Second Sunday of Advent; Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:4-13 – Friends, we cannot live without hope. It makes all the difference in how we observe our world, and how willingly, charitably we get to know and understand one another. It makes all the difference in situations we face, vitality we feel, choices we make. Different persons in similar circumstances—whether business success and honors achieved, or suffering amid such horrors as the Syrian war or concentration camps—different persons with similar challenges, abilities and opportunities will live in diverse even opposite ways, depending on whether there is hope or not.