Tag: Rejoice

Rejoice! The Lord Has Made His Home With You

Biblical Text: 1 Chronicles 16:1-36

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This was the first Midweek Advent service of the season. The Theme of all of them is Rejoice! This specific one looks at a text a guarantee you have not spent time with. It is David moving the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem from Chronicles. There are lots of interesting things about this story. The sermon mentions a few of them, but it leaves those for you contemplation. Because the main addition of Chronicles in this regard is the re-worked Psalm of David. It gives us a couple of reasons to Rejoice: the works of God and the name of God. The works of God point us to who God himself is. That Ark that is moving is the summary of the works. It is the proof that God has made a home among his people. What the Tabernacle or Temple hides in the Old Testament is revealed in the New Testament when God makes his home among his people in the flesh. The incarnation of Jesus Christ.

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Behold and Rejoice

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Biblical Text: Zephaniah 3:14-20

The third week of Advent is often labeled Gaudete, Latin for Rejoice! It’s a command word. But commanding someone to rejoice is a non-starter. True Joy is pulled out of us. It is the natural reaction of the loved seeing the lover. This sermon reflects on these themes and how God coming from outside of us brings for that Rejoicing.

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