12.1.2024 "Foretold: Luke 1:1-25"

For this first Sunday in Advent, we turn our attention to Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter 1 is often overlooked as we jump straight into the Christmas narrative in Luke chapter 2. But, that's often how it goes with Christmas, isn't it? We rush right ahead. As soon as the Halloween decorations are down at Walmart, the Christmas ones are up. We're too quick to jump ahead to fulfillment, when there's something spiritually edifying in waiting in the foretelling. In this sermon, we are introduced to Zechariah and Elizabeth, the parents of the one we will come to know as John the Baptist.