December 19
REjoice in Waiting: Release by Pastor Bobby Walston

Luke 1:39-45

In our text today, the last Sunday of Advent, Christmas itself is less than one week away. God calls us to consider not just our home, but our roots—not where we live, or lived, but where we were born; where we  started, where our family comes from.  As our Advent season draws to a close, and we draw nearer to the manger itself, our  preparation turns, too, back to the beginning, back to the basics, “ad fontes,” as the Latin  saying goes, back to the font, back to the baptismal waters where it all started for you and  for me. There we received our own new life. There the Christmas message became a lasting  truth for our lives. There we became God’s people, forgiven, to live under him in his  kingdom, and to serve him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness!