Sound the Warning

November 30, 2025 - January 4, 2026

Advent and Christmas have been sentimentalized for profit in our culture, but traditionally the pre-Christmas liturgical build-up is a serious season of repentance that makes nativity rejoicing possible. We’ll follow the Revised Common Lectionary readings for the season, bouncing around in Matthew to capture the foreshadowing of the conflict that is pressed on every person when God comes into the world.

Warning: God is not done with us yet. Jesus warns his followers to “stay awake,” because the current iteration of God’s presence among them is not the last. As we contend with over- saturation of our spirits by bad news and constant policy alarms, how do we remain people who are watchful for God’s presence, not in an “end of the world” kind of way but in an awareness of God in the everyday-ness of life?