What could be more festive than carols by candlelight?

Bring the whole family down to church on Sunday 14th December at 4pm and prepare yourselves for the celebrations ahead.

No previous carol singing experience required!

Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?”  In Matthew 11:2-11, John the Baptist is awaiting execution.  In this dark place he wonders whether Jesus is the one who will bring God’s light to the world, the one whom Isaiah 35:1-10 promised when his people were also imprisoned.  They both long for a time of freedom and flourishing.

There are times in all our lives when we too question what difference Christ makes to the world when suffering and injustice are still to be seen in every land.  Yet Jesus tells us: the blind receive their sight, the lame can walk, the dead are raised to life.  We are the blind and lame and dying that Christ heals: he opens our eyes and strengthens our hands in order that we can continue God’s work of healing and liberation.

This Advent the question that John asks, Jesus also asks of us: are we the ones who are to come, or should the world for others?

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