Sermon #418
Advent (the four Sundays leading up to Christmas Day) is the season of preparation for Christ's return. In the same way, the secular season of Christmas (between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day) is a time when we prepare to receive guests into our homes. For the season of Advent 2020, we are looking at "Company's Coming," and we begin with the declaration: "This Place Is a Mess!" We have been so long waiting for Christ's return that many of us live as if he is not coming at all. Yet throughout the Olivet discourse we have been reading parables of the coming Kingdom that hint that he will return at a time when we least expect it. Jesus said that no one knows the hour or the day, and that is good, because if we knew when Christ would return we would live however we like and then clean up at the last moment, and that is not how God calls us to live.
Mark 13:24-37
Recorded at Hudson UMC on November 29, 2020 (Originally published on November 30, 2020)
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