Sermon // Advent: Love

So much of our world as we know it is difficult, out of place, and not as it ought to be. The things we have hoped for, the plans we have made, the promises we pin all our dreams on, fail us time and time again. God knows...that is why he sent his son Jesus. At advent we not only look back to the messiah who came, but celebrate the promise of the messiah who will return. All our hopes, all our desires, all our dreams hang on the promises of Christmas. The arrival of Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promised supreme loving act. Becoming one of us and humbling himself to be born in a manger, to be with us. He loved us so much that he became one of us so that we could know his love, and carry that love with us to the world.