Advent Devotional SHCC 2017

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Sunday, December 3 Our journey begins as we encounter texts that invite us to realize our need of God’s presence. We are aware that our lives and our world are in deep need of restoration and wholeness. This was true before Jesus’ birth and it is true today. Like Mary and Joseph, we will find familiar markers along the trek and there will be times we have no idea where we are. The Good News through this time is that God is with us. Our Signpost: Hope Isaiah 64:1-9 From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him. You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed. Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people. Mark 13:24-27 But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory. Then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
We’ve heard that the people of the time had certain ideas about the Promised One, that the Expected One would be born in a palace or come down from Heaven on a cloud, never expected the Messiah would be sent as a baby to people like Mary and Joseph… Our question is this: What is our expectation? What promise do we hold to our hearts? Who is this Messiah born to us? – Ann Weems
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