FINDING PEACE IN HIS COMING (2)
Scripture: Luke 1:39-56
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Title: Finding Peace in His Coming (2)
Series: Advent-Getting Ready For His Coming
Author: Patrick Edwards
Text: Luke 1:39-56
Introduction
Here we are, the final week. Our kids are giddy, parents are stressed out, and hopefully the final touches and details are getting sorted out. Frankly, though, I'm just fighting the urge of looking ahead. You see, for the Edwards our Christmas decorations have been up since October 29. Christmas music has been playing since September 20. Christmas candles have been burning since long before that. In other words, I'm a little Christmased-out, I hate to admit.
I joked with you last week that I'm worn out on Christmas music. I mean you can only listen to "All I Want for Christmas is You" but so many times! Of course, the joke is on me, as our text this morning is the oldest Christmas song in existence, a little ditty called "The Magnificat". But this one is refreshing; it's different. It's a song that is truly timeless. It speaks to the thousands of years of waiting in Israel for salvation. It speaks to the society of Mary's day, it's culture, it's values. But it still speaks to the thousands of years of waiting in the world since then for God's salvation to be completed. It has spoken to the society of every believer's day since, their cultures, their values. The German pastor and theologian who fought against the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer described this song in this way,
It is at once the most passionate, the wildest, one might even say the most revolutionary Advent hymn ever sung. This is not the gentle, tender, dreamy Mary whom we sometimes see in paintings; this is the passionate, surrendered, proud, enthusiastic Mary who speaks out here. This song has none of the sweet, nostalgic, or even playful tones of some of our Christmas carols. It is instead a hard, strong, inexorable song about collapsing thrones and humbled lords of this world, about the power of God and the powerlessness of humankind. These are th ...
Series: Advent-Getting Ready For His Coming
Author: Patrick Edwards
Text: Luke 1:39-56
Introduction
Here we are, the final week. Our kids are giddy, parents are stressed out, and hopefully the final touches and details are getting sorted out. Frankly, though, I'm just fighting the urge of looking ahead. You see, for the Edwards our Christmas decorations have been up since October 29. Christmas music has been playing since September 20. Christmas candles have been burning since long before that. In other words, I'm a little Christmased-out, I hate to admit.
I joked with you last week that I'm worn out on Christmas music. I mean you can only listen to "All I Want for Christmas is You" but so many times! Of course, the joke is on me, as our text this morning is the oldest Christmas song in existence, a little ditty called "The Magnificat". But this one is refreshing; it's different. It's a song that is truly timeless. It speaks to the thousands of years of waiting in Israel for salvation. It speaks to the society of Mary's day, it's culture, it's values. But it still speaks to the thousands of years of waiting in the world since then for God's salvation to be completed. It has spoken to the society of every believer's day since, their cultures, their values. The German pastor and theologian who fought against the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer described this song in this way,
It is at once the most passionate, the wildest, one might even say the most revolutionary Advent hymn ever sung. This is not the gentle, tender, dreamy Mary whom we sometimes see in paintings; this is the passionate, surrendered, proud, enthusiastic Mary who speaks out here. This song has none of the sweet, nostalgic, or even playful tones of some of our Christmas carols. It is instead a hard, strong, inexorable song about collapsing thrones and humbled lords of this world, about the power of God and the powerlessness of humankind. These are th ...
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