Advent is a season of hopeful tension, embracing the idea that God's new world is both Already here (seen in moments of grace and peace, like Jerusalem's relief from Assyria) and Not Yet fully realized. Drawing on Isaiah 2:1-5 and Matthew 24:36-44, this sermon encourages us to live in what Parker Palmer calls the "Tragic Gap" between the real and the ideal.

We explore how glimpses of compassion, justice, and peace—like turning guns into trumpets—are signs of what could be, calling us to live as though Christ's peaceful reign has already begun.

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