Our Listening - Advent 2021

Preacher: Tim Kim - If Advent is a season of expectant waiting, what does it mean to wait well? How do we prepare with intention and purpose? We often turn in these moments to individual introspection, reflection, meditation. But as the story of Jesus' pre-arrival demonstrates, there is usually a messenger, a message, and a need to listen. Sometimes the messenger takes the form of Mary, as we talked about a couple weeks ago, and sometimes it looks like scary/weird John the Baptist (though in the painting above he looks more sad/sleepy). Sometimes the message is a beautiful song that calls into being a new world, and sometimes it is a voice in the wilderness screaming about things that are hard to take. There's a lot of both out there in the world right now. Are we listening?