Promise of Presence - Sermon from December 29, 2013
If you would like to see a video of the sermon, please click here . There they sit in eager anticipation at 6:00 in the morning. They sit impatiently waiting to see what surprises may be just down the stairs. They wait quietly for what seems like an eternity. At 6:00 I'm the morning. At 6:05 the youngest cannot take it any longer. She shouts, “Can we come down yet?” “No, not yet,” comes the adult voice from the living room. Curses…more waiting. At 6:08, 6:12, and 6:15, the scene repeats itself each time with the exact same result. More waiting. The children eventually work their way down two or three steps and wait again. This time, there is nothing quiet about their waiting. Now they are in full excited breathy “whispering” which can be heard throughout the entire house about what they might expect to see under the tree. “Kids, it’s still not time,” now it’s mom’s voice ringing from just down...