Advent Week IV: Lessons & Carols - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This Sunday, we celebrated the birth of Jesus with our annual Lessons & Carols service, an ancient church tradition of proclaiming the story of Jesus’ first Advent through hymns and the reading of Scripture. The songs and stories of Christmas that we know so well have toppled kingdoms, delivered people, and transformed history. However, it’s so easy for us to hear them year after year, and yet still miss the things that God is doing in our midst. As His people, we must be hungry for the hope and glory Christmas holds for the world, and celebrate Jesus’ coming with wonder and amazement.

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0:00.0	Goody folks, John Tyson here from Church of the City, New York. Thanks for tuning into the podcast.
0:10.0	We hope that over the past year, our preaching and teaching has built your faith, inspired you to stay loyal to Jesus and equipped you for following him well in our increasingly secular culture.
0:22.8	And we would love to invite you to partner with us if our teaching ministry has blessed you
0:27.7	by joining us in our Living the Liturgy end of year campaign. Every week our church says a liturgy
0:35.1	about becoming a countercultural, generous community in the
0:38.5	middle of New York. And with so many folks listening in from around the world, we thought some
0:43.1	of you may want to join us. So would you prayerfully consider making a gift to our ministry if we
0:49.3	have blessed you in any way to help us take what we're doing to another level in 2023.
0:55.0	If that's on your heart and the spirit prompts you, you can go to church.m.m.m.
1:00.0	For all the details.
1:03.0	Okay, now back to the podcast.
1:10.0	Fleming Rodley says this.
1:11.9	The entire thrust of this season at the end of the church year is designed to bring us face
1:18.2	to face with reality.
1:20.9	Reality about sin and death.
1:22.9	Reality about the human race.
1:25.2	Reality about God.
1:27.4	Something ultimate has entered our world, something or someone
1:30.6	that calls us to attention, calls us out of the daily preoccupations and our routine points
1:38.9	of view. Calling us out of our daily preoccupations, that's what this time of year is designed to be.
1:46.5	The reason it's important that we lift our eyes is because there's a great tradition in human history
1:51.8	of missing what God is doing when he's doing it. At Jesus' first coming, they missed him.
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