Wilderness

Last Sunday the sermon was on the Gospel text from St. Matthew, the first 8 verses of Chapter 1. Mark relates the prophecy in Isaiah about John the Baptist, "the voice of one crying out in the wilderness." We often look at the world around us as wilderness. But Rev. Brown pointed out that the real wilderness, the wilderness we must be concerned about, is not the world we live in, "The wilderness is not what's outside, but what is in our hearts."
This Advent, are our hearts prepared for the one who is to come? - the one who baptizes us with the Holy Spirit?

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