Grown Back from the Stump (November 30, 2025)

This week’s sermon:

Christmas can arrive wrapped in lights and joy while grief, loss, and the sense that this world is deeply broken remain close at hand. The Gospel of Mark opens with “the beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ,” echoing creation itself and pressing an Advent question beneath all the decorations: What kind of beginning can Jesus bring to lives that do not feel whole?

• Genesis 1:1
• Exodus 23:20
• Isaiah 40:1
• Isaiah 40:3
• Malachi 3:1
• Mark 1:1-2