Sermons on Advent

I still remember when I found out that I was going to be an aunt. I remember making the drive across Iowa to meet my niece for the first time, just giddy that the day had finally arrived when I could visit her after she was born. We have this picture of her sticking her tongue out at me on day 2, and while I know that she didn’t have control over it, I just had to laugh…

When I was a kid, my friends and I used to love playing with a Magic 8 ball, asking it all the important questions that we had at 10 years old, waiting for it to magically give us life advice. And, if we didn’t like the advice, it was so easy to just shake it again until we got the answer we were actually looking for. Those were the days! I wish they made one of those…

This week I had a little extra time at the end of my Foss Bible Study, so I decided to ask my group what their hopes were for either children in their lives or the children of the world. I asked the same thing of the Wednesday night Vespers group, encouraging them to write out their hopes and spend a minute praying those each day this week. It’s powerful to spend some…