Sermon, Sunday Next Before Advent, 2025

“Stir up the wills of thy faithful people.”  So we pray in today’s collect.  But to what purpose are we to be stirred-up?  We see in today’s lessons that we are to turn our focus outward.  We are to see the shepherdless people all around us and be stirred to compassion and then go out into the wilderness of our communities and gather in the outcasts.  Let us not dwell upon what we lack, but rather let us simply obey our Lord Jesus Christ.  All things are His.  He will provide bread for His people in the wilderness.

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