Advent 1A + Why do you Search for the Living Among the Dead? + ACL with MCL + 11.27.22
Why do you Search for the Living Among the Dead? Advent 1A, 2022 (Isaiah 2, Matthew 24) All Santos, Oxnard The Rev. Alene Campbell-Langdell with The Rev. Melissa Campbell-Langdell This sermon borrows heavily from another sermon for today from Pastor Alene, with adaptations to our Sunday service context. In his popular translation of verses 26-28, a few verses prior to our Gospel reading for today, Eugene Peterson has Jesus say, So if they say, ‘Run to the country and see him arrive!’ or, ‘Quick, get downtown, see him come!’ don’t give them the time of day. The Arrival of the Son of Man isn’t something you go to see. He comes like swift lightning to you! Whenever you see crowds gathering, think of carrion vultures circling, moving in, hovering over a rotten carcass. You can be quite sure that it’s not the living Son of Man pulling in those crowds. [1] It’s a provocative image and one that brings to mind a question from a different season of the church, “Why do yo