You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

The Incarnation. God choosing to be with us in mind, body, and spirit...showing that we are not an evil to be saved; we are waiting to be freed to live into the fullness of our baptismal promise. Each with our own gifts, our own callings. God is with us. Thanks be to God.
 
Enter into worship. 

You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.

The hope of Advent is not a mystery, nor is it particularly complicated. John the Baptist, is its spokesperson, deploying bulldozers and gathering a movement to relocate heaven and earth, to “make straight the way of the Lord.”
 
Isaiah gives us a Christmas recipe—liberty and release for those locked up, real change that is good news for those who are robbed of their right to abundant life by their neighbor and their government. Real politics for real people, comfort food for those who have lost their children. All spiced with shouts of praise.
 
Notice, though, that all this is spoken in the midst of a not-yet-ness. Broken hearts are scattered through the hillsides. Bars, as yet, still locked. Justice delayed…but coming. John comes as a witness to the coming light.
 
Advent is no vague, disembodied sense of warmth. It is poetry, from the Greek poesis, the act of making or doing—production, creation, creativity, culture: lighting a candle in the darkness, then another, an active waiting, noticing what's wrong and what could be made right, the preservation of hope, a 500-year plan new every morning.

​Enter into worship.

You can choose to watch all of this Sunday's worship service in a series of linked videos, one after the other, by clicking this link. Just press the button that says "PLAY ALL" and sit back and relax. You can also just click on the graphic to the left.​ Otherwise, proceed as normal through the sections.