Advent 2022: Hopeful Imagination

This season, we journey with the prophet Isaiah to dream about the reality of Jesus' Kingdom coming in our midst.  Our lives are dominated by so many narratives in the media, social media, and friends that we can forget to imagine the way of life to which God has invited us through His Son Jesus.  When we are inundated with messages of consumerism, despair, fear, dread, and worry may we learn to imagine with hope the new vision Jesus brings to us.

It is the prophet's role to help us reignite our imagination of what it means to live in the way of God. The author Walter Brueggemann writes,

“The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing. The same royal consciousness that make it possible to implement anything and everything is the one that shrinks imagination because imagination is a danger. Thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.”

May we live with a hopeful imagination of all that has come and is coming to and through us in Christ Jesus!  

To help guide our thoughts this Advent, we will be making use of a devotional book assembled by friends in the Anglican Network in Canada (St. John's Church, Vancouver).  You can find it by clicking here.

Advent 2021: Even, so, come...

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Advent 2020: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love

Sermon: 1st Sunday in Advent (Nov. 29, 2020)

Sermon: 2nd Sunday in Advent (Dec. 6, 2020)

Sermon: 3rd Sunday in Advent (Dec. 13)

Sermon: 4th Sunday in Advent (Dec. 20)

Sermon: Christmas Eve (Dec. 24, 2020)

Sermon: Christmas Day (Dec. 25, 2020)

Sermon: 1st Sunday After Christmas (Dec. 27, 2020)

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Lynne has put together an Advent Calendar to help us focus on Jesus among us this Advent.

2019 Sermons

More Than Just a Memory- Christmas Eve Candlelight Sermon
December 24, 2019- Pastor J-M
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Advent Perspective: The Big Picture- Redemption
December 15, 2019- Pastor J-M
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Advent Perspective: The Big Picture- The Fall
December 8, 2019- Pastor J-M
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Advent Perspective: The Big Picture- Creation
December 1, 2019- Pastor J-M
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Advent & Christmas 2018

What Do You Have Without Jesus? Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
December 24, 2018- Pastor J-M
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New Shoots from Old Roots: The Fruit
December 23, 2018- Pastor J-M
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Advent 2015

What Are You Afraid Of?
December 13, 2015- Pastor J-M
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Are You Ready?
December 6, 2015- Pastor J-M
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Write a New Story...Waiting for the Promise
November 23, 2015- Pastor J-M
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