- Advent is about new beginnings. The First Sunday in Advent is December 1.
What is the new beginning you hope for in your life?
- Hope is the expectation that God reigns and God’s promises will be fulfilled.
Jesus came into the world, fully God and fully man. Jesus Christ brings salvation to humans in order to reconcile all things to the Father.
- Hope ensures your new beginning is purposed by God and not an accident.
It is this Jesus who suffered, died, and was buried for you. It is this Jesus who rose from the dead in order for you to know the most incredible new beginning…forgiveness of sin, everlasting life, and purpose for living.
- Read the benediction below (benediction, in Latin, means, “good word”) written by the late Richard Halverson, Minister of Word and Sacrament (PCUSA), and Chaplain to the United States Senate (1981- 1994).
You go nowhere by accident.
Wherever you go, God is sending you.
He has a purpose in your being there.
Christ who indwells you has something he wants to do
through you wherever you are.
Believe this.
And go in his grace and love and power.
Amen.
- Remember, nothing in your life and Grace’s is life is an accident. That is the promise of Advent
On the journey of Christian discipleship and spiritual formation with you, I remain faithfully yours,
Steve
The Rev. Dr. Steven M. Marsh, Interim Pastor
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