So, Advent's been beautiful if you're new to church and maybe you just came because

it's Christmas Advent is the season we celebrate leading up to Christmas. Advent means

expectation. And so we're expecting the arrival of Christ and celebrating the fact that

He came, but we're also acknowledging the fact that we're still expecting a lot of other

things. Everybody in the building today is waiting on something. And Christmas is beautiful

and glitzy and glamorous and in every way we do our best to make the table look great,

to make the meal look great, to make the kids look great, to make the present look great,

but just under the surface of it all and sometimes not even under the surface, there's

pain and tension in this season. And the reason is, is because the world is broken and

everything's not the way it's supposed to be. And I know that sounds oversimplistic, but

it's just the reality of living in a world that has been broken by sin, not just the sin

of two people way back when, but our own choices day by day by day. In this broken world,

we have promises and that's what we want to end on today with this last waiting here

for you Advent message. We have promises in the waiting. And one of the promises we have

in the waiting has been fulfilled. That is at Christmas, the long wait for the Savior

was finished and Christ has appeared on earth. But in Christmas, we also have a second

promise and a second season of waiting. And that is waiting for the return of Christ to

put everything back as it should be. We talked a few weeks ago that in the old days when

I was growing up in church, and maybe some of you guys that did grow up in church, you

know, it was more like the tent meeting. Anybody have a tent meeting or a week long revival

or the weekend revival or the summer revival? Or we had a bunch of revivals at the church,

I grew up in, and the evangelist came. Does anybody remember this guy who came? And he

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