Thanksgiving is behind us (the holiday, not the practice) and we are headed toward Christmas. In between we have that season, which seems shorter every year, of Advent. Advent is from the Latin adventus "coming or arrival.” As I am being installed as your pastor the first Sunday in Advent, I wonder what is coming for us as community. I am excited to find out and look forward as we share that journey together.
I am also mindful of the season of Advent. It is a threefold coming that we anticipate. The baby Jesus coming as God incarnate in Bethlehem; Immanuel, God with us now; and the second coming of Christ where God will be manifest clearly and not dimly as we see the inbreaking of God at work in the world now. Each week we light a candle...
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