Just in Time! Advent Services
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Contents include:
Introduction: The Ways We Know Jesus
First Sunday in Advent: Emmanuel
Second Sunday in Advent: Son of Man
Third Sunday in Advent: Example
Fourth Sunday in Advent: Lord
Christmas Eve: Son of God
Christmas Day: Word of God
Dr. David G. Rogne
Dr. David G. Rogne is a retired pastor, currently living in South Carolina.
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Just in Time! Advent Services - Dr. David G. Rogne
JUST IN TIME!
ADVENT
SERVICES
David G. Rogne
Abingdon Press
Nashville
JUST IN TIME!
ADVENT SERVICES
Copyright © 2007 by Abingdon Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rogne, David George, 1934-
Advent services / David G. Rogne.
p. cm. — (Just in time!)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-687-46581-1 (binding: pbk., adhesive, perfect : alk. paper) 1. Advent. I. Title. II. Series: Just in time! (Nashville, Tenn.)
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This is for
Seth, Ian, Micaela,
Olivia, and Turner
CONTENTS
Introduction
First Sunday of Advent
Ways We Know Him: Emmanuel
Second Sunday of Advent
Ways We Know Him: Son of Man
Third Sunday of Advent
Ways We Know Him: Example
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Ways We Know Him: Lord
Christmas Eve
Ways We Know Him: Son of God
Christmas Day
Ways We Know Him: Word of God
Scripture Index
INTRODUCTION
My grandchildren like to curl up on my lap to have me read a story that has been read to them hundreds of times. They know all the characters, and know what each is going to say. They know the story so well they can pretend to read by looking at the pictures. My grandchilren like what is familiar, but it doesn’t challenge them to live differently. They can tell the story by heart without ever making application to themselves.
For those preachers who follow the lectionary, Advent and Christmas can send us back over the same ground that we have been plowing for years. Perhaps the old, old story
never grows old, but when we have been telling it for years, it becomes increasingly difficult to find ways to challenge the congregation to hear it in a new way that will call for response. They know the characters by heart, but their very familiarity with the story may prevent them from asking, What does this mean for me?
There is a poetic adage that says, Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, if he is not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn.
The purpose of the messages and materials in this book is to encourage people to look at some of the ways we describe the one whose coming we celebrate in this season and to ask what each of those descriptions means for our conduct.
FIRST SUNDAY OF
ADVENT
WAYS WE KNOW HIM: EMMANUEL
Scripture: Isaiah 7:14
Sermon
Seven hundred years before Christ, the prophet Isaiah was trying to convince his king to trust in God rather than in foreign alliances. When the king remained unconvinced, the prophet told him that, as a sign of God’s trustworthiness, a child would be born to an undesignated young woman. Before the child became old enough to distinguish between right and wrong, the nations that the king now feared would be destroyed. The child’s name would reflect Isaiah’s message; he would be called Emmanuel, which means God is with us.
Undoubtedly, such a child was born. Whether he had any significance for the king, we do not know. But even if he did, it was not enduring.
Seven centuries later, Jesus was born in Bethlehem. When his disciple, Matthew, sought to record the significance of Jesus’ coming, he turned back to the words of Isaiah and suggested that these words were more adequately fulfilled by Jesus than by anyone in the days of the prophet. From that time to this, Emmanuel, God is with us,
has stood for what Christians have felt happened at that first Christmas; that somehow, in Jesus, God was incarnated among us, took on human flesh and blood. But what does it mean to us? Perhaps the very title, Emmanuel, can shed some light.
Emmanuel—God Is with Us
For one thing, to call Jesus Emmanuel is to say something about God: that God is with us, not against us. This is consistent with what the Bible has always taught about God. We read that somewhere back in the dawn of time, God created human beings in order to have fellowship with them. Because of human pride and self-sufficiency, the relationship was strained and human beings wandered away from the relationship for which they were made. God has made numerous attempts to call God’s children back to their destiny, but they keep losing the way. The stars, the