Advent, Time Travel & Preparation (Ken Southgate)

There's an epic battle for time going on. It seems like Christmas (at least the consumer version) is getting pushed earlier and earlier. For this episode we talk with Ken Southgate about a time called advent, which the church has been using for centuries as a time to ponder the mysteries of God and prepare to celebrate Jesus' coming. We look at what some authors and church father's say and about why we might wanna reclaim a time of reflecting and preparing in the church.

 

SONG: O Come O Come Emmanuel - Hymn - arr. Zak Kratzer (2014)

 

 

 

IN CHRIST, GOD WHO WAS THERE FROM THE BEGINNING IS REVEALED

John 1:14 - The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

 

CHRIST’S INCARNATION HAS PARADOX TO IT:

AUGUSTINE: He who sustains the world lay in a manger, a wordless Child, yet the Word of God. Him whom the heavens do not contain the bosom of one woman bore. She ruled our King; she carried Him in whom we exist; she fed our Bread… He lies in a manger but He holds the world in His hand… He is wrapped in swaddling clothes but He clothes us with immortality…

(Sermon 184 and 190)