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Advent Sermons
2017-2021

2021
November 28 (Advent 1) - "Our Entering Saviour" [PDF] [Listen]
December 5 (Advent 2) - "The Doctor Is In" [PDF] [Listen]
December 12 (Advent 3) - "Better than Christmas" [PDF] [Listen]
December 19 (Advent 4) - "The Night Will Soon Be Ending" [PDF] [Listen]

Midweek Series: Advent Waiting
December 1 - Waiting in Silence (Zechariah) [PDF] [Listen]
December 8 - Waiting Together (Mary and Elizabeth) [PDF] [Listen]
December 15 - Waiting in Wonder (Joseph) [PDF] [Listen]

2020
November 29 (Advent 1) - "Our Journey Home" [PDF] [Listen]
December 6 (Advent 2) - "Where Were You?" [PDF] [Listen]
December 13 (Advent 3) - "The Prophet of Joy" [PDF] [Listen]
December 20 (Advent 4) - "Unlikely" [PDF] [Listen]

Midweek Series: Ageless Advent Questions
December 2 - Are you the one who is to come? [PDF] [Listen]
December 9 - How will this be? [PDF] [Listen]
December 16 - For me? [PDF] [No audio]

2019

December 1 (Advent 1) - "No Christmas?!" [PDF] [Listen]
December 8 (Advent 2) - "The Prescription for a Perfect Christmas" [PDF] [Listen]
December 15 (Advent 3) - "Yes! He Is the One!" [PDF] [Listen]
December 22 (Advent 4) - "God with Us" [PDF] [Listen]

Midweek Series: God Is in the Manger
December 4 - Waiting for God in the Manger [PDF]
December 11 - The Mystery of God in the Manger [PDF] [Listen]
December 18 - The Redemption of God in the Manger [PDF] [Listen]

2018

December 2 (Advent 1) - "Just As He Had Told Them" [PDF] [Listen]
December 9 (Advent 2) - "Tarnished Silver Cleansed by the Blood of Christ" [PDF] [Listen]
December 16 (Advent 3) - "Adventing" [PDF] [Listen]
December 23 (Advent 4) - "Planning and Preparing for Christmas" [PDF] [Listen]

Midweek Series: The Christmas Story (as told by the angel Gabriel)
December 5 - The Time Has Come [PDF] [Listen]
December 12 - Wait! What? Who? [PDF] [Listen]
December 19 - Gabriel, We Have a Problem [PDF] [Listen]
(Series concludes with Christmas Eve Sermon: Glory to God in the Highest!

The theme of our Advent midweek meditations this year is: The Christmas Story (as told by the angel Gabriel). This is just a fun way for me to try to tell the story in a creative way, from the perspective of Gabriel. Yes, I've taken some poetic license here, but believe I remain faithful and true to the story. I hope this make you think about the story in a new way and grow in appreciation for it and all that God has done for us.
~ Pastor Douthwaite

2017
December 3 (Advent 1) - "Oh Wait!" [PDF] [Listen]
December 10 (Advent 2) - "Comfort in the Wilderness" [PDF] [Listen]
December 17 (Advent 3) - "Who Are You?" [PDF] [Listen]
December 24 (Advent 4) - "The Culmination of History" [PDF] [Listen]

Midweek Series: The Glory of God
    
(based on the Proper Prefaces for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany)
December 6 - "When He Comes Again in Glory" [PDF]
December 13 - "A New Revelation of Your Glory" [PDF] [Listen]
December 20 - "Manifested the Fullness of Your Glory" [PDF]