Date: December 4, 2022

Bible Text: Isaiah 11:1-10, Matthew 11:2-11 |

Series:

We will celebrate the Lord's Supper in worship today. To take part with us virtually, you will need a little bit of bread and a little bit of wine or grape juice (or the closest things you have). Then when we eat, you eat; when we drink, you drink; when we pray, you pray. Easy as that.

Today is the second Sunday in Advent, and Advent is the season of preparation for Christ's coming into the world - in history as a child, in our daily lives as Savior, and in the future as Ruler and Judge of all creation. So it isn't just waiting for the baby Jesus to be born, but it is about waiting. And if we wait patiently and intentionally, we wait with hope.

Hope is our theme for Advent this year. We are spending the four Sundays and the four Wednesday Advent study sessions considering hope as a biblical practice for following Jesus Christ. We began with "Hearing Hope" last week, and this week's focus (pun intended) is "Seeing Hope." What sort of evidence is there for biblical hope? How can we know it when we see it, and when we see it how can we know what it means? Our scripture lessons give us a path to understanding.

We will continue building the practice of Hope in our worship services through Advent and also in our Advent Study on Wednesday nights at 6:45 pm (ET), which this week only will be only on Zoom and not in person. Next week we'll be back to hybrid.

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