Send us a textWe are hearing two voices to help us see something new in this God in the manger this Christmas. We are hearing the prophet Isaiah speak of this world-shifting event of “The Servant” arriving to serve the world in love some seven hundred years prior to it happening.We are hearing a Lutheran pastor and eventual martyr under national Socialist regime in WWII speak from his two Advents and Christmases in Tegel prison, Berlin, in 1943 and 44.Today we hear that God is mysterious. Isaiah speaks of wonderful and mysterious images that try and describe just how world-changing and heart-changing this Christmas event really is.Bonhoeffer speaks of the resistance we have to how God operates. He refuses to be boiled down to just what we can get out of him or how we can figure things out. He works in places that defy our logic and are beyond our ability to understand everything.And yet, he has appeared in that manger, and we have been changed by this God in the manger.The Advent call goes out. John the Baptist calls from his wilderness. Get serious. Take the time. Stop simply getting from God or having to figure it all out. God in the manger is here.Pastor Adrian

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