History’s Highest Hope: Sermon for Advent 1
A sermon for Advent Sunday. Preached one week early at St Matthews Shenton Park: History's Highest Hope - Isaiah 40.1-11.
In Juba, South Sudan, my colleague Paul and I were getting sick of being cooped up in our “safe house”. We began to dream of climbing the small mountain we could see a few kilometres away to the south. Anticipating…
My excitement level rose as the aircraft made its descent to Juba and the details of green wooded hills and bushland came into clearer view. I thought of the last time I had seen this, flying out 37 years ago,…
On to the capital, this time with Linhas Aereas de Mocambique, and to the latest church plant. We ate in the courtyard of Inocencio and Alexandra’s very basic rented accommodation with an enthusiastic group of students. By the light of…