Happy New Year!
Advent 1 sermon, delivered November 28, 2021 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Text: Luke 21:25-36 A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Happy New Year! No, I haven’t gone off of the deep end, and we haven’t skipped over Christmas to New Year’s Eve. Today is the Church’s new years day, the first Sunday of Advent and the first Sunday of Year C Bible readings, for those keeping track. It means that we finish reading the Gospel of Mark and begin to read the Gospel of Luke for the coming year. It also means that we have left the Ordinary Time of the church calendar and entered into a long arc of preparing for the presence of Christ in our lives, from his birth to his rebirth. We have changed the green hangings of Pentecost to the blue ones of Advent, represent...