New Year's Eve
Great Expectations
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Brothers and sisters, looking at the gospel lesson today, we hear words of Jesus about his return. Please be seated. So what are we doing here on a perfectly good New Year’s Eve? Aren’t there better things to do on such a night? There…
In Quietness and in Trust
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The text for this evening comes from the Old Testament reading, the prophet Isaiah. You remember from high school, in the concept or the subject of physics, the measurement of change is always defined by time—miles per hour and so forth. When a baby…
Great Expectations
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. So what are we doing here on a perfectly good New Year’s Eve? Aren’t there better things to do on such a night? There must be a party somewhere to go to. Or go down to Lady Bird Lake for the concert and the fireworks. Or at least be…
Ready and Waiting
Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who is our hope and our strength—today, for all time, and forever. So… we’ve gone through several weeks at the end of the church year in which our lessons often spoke of the end times. Then we passed through the Advent season in a new church year which also spoke of…