PSA 04 December 2011

Ken Howcroft. “Cry out and prepare in the wilderness”. A sermon for the second Sunday in Advent. Are you ready yet for Christmas? To save the world from economic crisis and from becoming a wasteland or wilderness, should we do as they say and go shopping: buying things that we don’t want for ourselves, or things that other people don’t want as gifts for them, and using our credit cards to solve the debts of countries by going into personal debt ourselves? Or should we learn not just to quote the Bible but to digest its truths and then speak biblically and prophetically to our contemporary world? God has always created things out of nothing, brought order out of chaos, life out of death and hope out of despair, because that is the sort of God God is! He is waiting to do it again. It needs us not just to talk about how to save the wasteland around us, but to go and join people in the wilderness and point to God’s coming there. Are we ready to do that? Comfort, my people, says your God! The readings were Isaiah 40: 1-11 and Mark 1: 1-8.