Disarming Advent | Disarming Peace

“God makes the Way”

Isaiah 11:1-10

Matthew 3:1-12

December 7, 2025

Rev. Teer Hardy

God works through vulnerability, that is, through what looks like weakness. The Scriptures are full of these paradoxes—those who lose their life find it, the poor are blessed, the mourners are comforted. But Advent gives us the paradox that holds the whole Gospel together: the Savior comes as a child, and the One who defeats death is Himself slain. The infant Savior points toward the crucified Lord. The manger is mirrored in the cross. The One who conquers death is the One who dies in humiliation. And both scenes—an infant wrapped in cloth and a Messiah wrapped for burial—are not signs of defeat but icons of God’s strength. All revealing how God has made the way.

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