Welcome

Join Us For Our Upcoming Advent Services

While Advent is certainly a time of celebration and anticipation of Christ’s birth, it is more than that. It is only in the shadow of Advent that the miracle of Christmas can be fully understood and appreciated, and it is only in the light of Christmas that the Christian life makes any sense. It is between the fulfilled promise of Christ’s first coming and the yet-to-be-fulfilled promise of God’s second coming that Karl Barth penned these words: “Unfulfilled and fulfilled promise are related to each other, as are dawn and sunrise. Both promise and in fact the same promise. If anywhere at all, then it is precisely in the light of the coming of Christ that faith has become Advent faith, the expectation of future revelation. But faith knows for whom and for what it is waiting. It is fulfilled faith because it lays hold on the fulfilled promise.” The promise for Israel and the promise for the church is Jesus Christ; Christ has come, and Christ will come again.

This is the essence of Advent.

These reflections are designed to help us step away from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and reflect on God’s presence in your midst.

Join Rev. Dr. Jessica L. Anschutz as we consider how God is shaping and preparing us for the in-breaking of Jesus into our world.

The devotions this year focus on different characters in the story of the birth of Jesus.