Series: Words For The Beginning
December 15, 2024 | Rev. Brooke Heerwald Steiner
John the Baptist paves the way for the One who is coming. When different groups of people come to John asking what they should do, he gives them each a different answer. Each of them have unique challenges and roles to play in addressing the brokenness of the world. Sometimes we can be too daunted by the enormity of the world’s problems to respond. But John reminds us that ordinary, small actions make add up. If everyone does the good that is theirs to do, then together we build the community that God intends. Join us as we reflect on what is ours to do.
Series Information
Advent is a season of endings and beginnings. As a calendar year comes to a close, a new church year begins. Christ's birth ushers us into new ways of living and loving; and yet, the world as we know it spins madly on. In many ways, pregnant Mary was surrounded by endings—large and small, personal and political. But Mary proclaimed hope in a God who was and is making all things new. Christ's birth offered a beautiful new beginning for shepherds and Magi alike—all the while, King Herod tried to bring Christ's story to an end. When we ourselves navigate seasons filled with endings and beginnings, we need reminders. We need words that can feel like steady ground, like a path for our feet to find as we step forward into the unknown.
