You are invited to the First Sunday of Advent with Holy Communion & Hanging of the Greens on December 1 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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First Sunday of Advent
with Holy Communion & Hanging of the Greens
Sunday, December 1, 2024, 10 am
Children’s Time: “Advent Calendar: Countdown to Christmas” by Pastor John
Sing-Along: Medley of Carols
While children and youth help decorate the Christmas tree,
congregation will sing medley of carols shown on the screen or in the bulletin.
Message: “A Reflection on the Emptiness of the Universe” by Rev. John Song
There is a term used by cosmologists called “cosmic voids”, the vast expanses of nothing that stretch between the galaxies. When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss does not gaze back into you. Instead, the void remains silent, relentless and frightening in its enormity.
But when we peer into the infinite blackness that defines the expanse of our universe, we are offered a choice. We can recoil in fear and disregard our humanity in the face of sheer cosmic dread. Or we can transform the shadows of the cosmos into a light that illuminates the uniqueness of everything we know here on Earth. The famed Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas celebrated the utility of negative spaces, proclaiming, “Where there is nothing, everything is possible.”
Genesis 1:1-2
In the Beginning
“1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,
2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep,
while a spirit from God swept over the face of the waters.”
John 1:1-3
In the Beginning
“1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came into being through him,
and without him not one thing came into being.”
