Untangling Christmas – Week 6 | Christmas Eve 2021

The holidays feel heavy this year: exhaustion, anxious expectations, and a growing urge to check out after a couple of years that stretched everything thin. People are leaving jobs, institutions and even faith—not because they hate God, but because life has become a knotted mess that feels impossible to untangle. This message meets that exact strain of weariness and disillusionment head-on. Instead of a sentimental nativity, the sermon unpacks Isaiah’s surprising image of the newborn as a “wonderful counselor” who enters the chaos to feel it with us, forgive us absolutely, and steady us for death and for living. You’ll hear a clear, compassionate case for why nothing in the middle—institutions, tech, politics—solves what this kind of counsel does, and why that might be a relief rather than a loss. The result is an invitation to rediscover a kind of wonder that actually unties the knots.