Advent

1620 of 22 items

Second Sunday of Advent – December 6, 2020

During this Advent season, we anticipate and focus on the coming of Jesus among us and in the world. On this Second Sunday of Advent, in the reading from Mark, John calls people to repent, to clear the decks, to completely reorder their lives so that nothing gets in the way of the Lord’s coming. […]

Weekday Advent Service – December 2, 2020

Peace Lutheran Church in Grass Valley, CA, welcomes you to this Weekday Advent video worship experience. This time of worship combines two parts, a Musical Meditation, followed by Holden Evening Prayer, which is a setting by Marty Haugen for Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat and renewal center located near Lake Chelan in the Northern Cascades […]

First Sunday of Advent – November 29, 2020

by

During this Advent season, we anticipate and focus on the coming of Jesus among us and in the world. Stir up your power, and come! On this First Sunday of Advent, the psalmist’s plea in Psalm 80:2 has become familiar to us in the Advent prayers. Isaiah wants God to rip the heavens open. Both […]

Signs and Seasons: Are You Pregnant?

Sermons during Advent

“Am I pregnant?” “Am I a handmaid of God?” “Is God so real and alive in me that God is ready to spring forth?” “Has God gotten inside me?” How about you? Are you pregnant with God? Is the good news of God’s love bursting inside you? Has God gotten close to you?

Signs and Seasons: Who Stands Before Us?

Sermons during Advent

It is still Advent…we are not ready because there is yet a mystery-“Among you stands one you do not know.” This is Signs and Season: Who stands before us?” It’s the mystery that John invokes as he preaches a baptism for the forgiveness of sins. It is the root of my question for “Signs and Season”, “Who (or what) stands before us?