What are we waiting for?

The story of Jesus’s birth is really a very ordinary, earthy story.  Jesus didn’t materialize out of thin air or fall like a comet from the sky.

Nothing flashy or eye-catching.  Something quite silent and hidden.

He was carried to term, given birth, nursed and nurtured by a human mother — just like each one of us. The astonishing claim is that this is the way God chose to come into our world!

Are we expecting God to work in us and through us?  If so, are we looking for God only in the spectacular and attention-getting?  Or are we expecting God in the common and ordinary, the silent and the hidden?

Listen to this week's sermon, the start of our 2023 Advent series, as Tina Huerta shares a message on the passage Luke 1:26-38.



“Advent reminds us that it is waiting—not predictability and control—that has a central place in the Christian faith.”
– Sharon Hodde Miller

“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”
– Psalms 27:14