Sunday, December 14, 2025
This Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, we celebrate joy. Joy is more than intense happiness. It is about deep fulfillment—about having a sense of living into one’s purpose. In that sense, joy has little to do with happiness, because living into our deepest purpose is often neither easy nor comfortable; sometimes it is even frustrating and disheartening. But it’s worth it. Joy is far greater than mere happiness. God has called us to live deeper than happiness. As we await the coming Christ, we take stock of the joy in our lives.
Presiding: Rev. Greg Powell
Music Minister: Jennifer Turner
Tech Team: Nathan McDormand, Jamie Waters, Steve Nichol
Advent Candle Lighting: Mahima Silvester
Scripture Reading Matthew 11:2-11
Read by: Milt Papageorge
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Our worship each Sunday is intended to be a collective experience, a communal practice. We might step into whatever is our sanctuary, each one of us as individuals, and yet as we assemble, from wherever we are, we become a people, drawn together through song and prayer, through word and ritual, and through the Spirit who breathes through it all, through us all. One and the same Spirit uniting us breathing us into life!
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