SERMON SNAPSHOT

Dear Friends in Christ –

Have you ever seen John the Baptist on an Advent calendar? More likely you would see him as an action figure in a PlayStation game – Prophet of the Wild – dressed in camel’s hair, wind in his face and torn, sleeveless t-shirt with locusts and honey on his breath!

Silly image? Maybe. Irreverent? Not meant to be, but not necessarily wrong. John was a man of the wilderness. He turned his back on his priestly lineage opting for the desert where he prophesied and baptized by water – carpenters, scribes, farmers and Pharisees from all Judea and Jerusalem.

John proclaimed the coming of the one more powerful who would baptize with the Spirit and with fire – the one who himself would be driven into the wilderness and made fit for the harsh road he would walk.

In advent we walk towards God’s light through the darkness that has not, that does not, that will not prevail, but was overcome by the incarnate.

Let’s walk together this Sunday –

See you in worship!