1st December 2024 (Year C – Advent 1) “Living out a Commitment to Creating The Kingdom of God”

For Advent, we have four welcome videos that you can use as an opener for worship presentations. Here is the first video. Thanks to Maria Williams for her talent and effort in producing these thoughtful additions to worship. Thanks also to Rod Barnes from Adamstown UC for the musical background

Jesus came into the world as the ‘upside down’ king – his kingdom is not of this world.

To commit to following Jesus is not to go along the pathway of power, authority or prestige.

Rather to relate with humility, through compassion, holding fast to a righteous way of living. The turmoil of the heavens was a sign that a new creation was in the making.

In Christ’s birth God proclaimed that the reality of peace had dawned on earth.

The proclamation of peace is costly…even Jesus and his parents became political refugees in Egypt.

In the struggle for liberation all must be connected and so we need each other.

ALL AGE MESSAGE

Did you ever wonder how Poinsettias are so much a part of Christmas?

There is a legend that comes from Mexico that tells how that all happened.

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