Angels Announce God's Favor

Angels Prepare Us For the Coming Of Jesus

This year we are focusing on what it means to prepare for the coming of Jesus. During the Wednesday Advent services we will look at how angels prepared people for the birth of Jesus. We will seek to learn from these accounts how angels may be continuing to prepare us for the coming of Jesus into our lives and the lives of others.

 

This message:

Angels prepare us for the coming of Jesus by announcing that God looks upon us with favor and takes away our shame. We learn several truths about angels in Luke 15:5-25. Angels are heavenly beings that can be seen, who speak in a language we can hear and understand, who are fearfully awesome in appearance, who calm our fears, who know our prayers, who have names, who speak very specifically into our current and future situations, who stand in the presence of God, who can hear and understand us, who respond to our words on behalf of God, and who can meed out God’s justice. The most comforting truth we learn about angels is that they are messengers of God who prepare us for the coming of Jesus by announcing that God looks upon us with favor and takes away our shame.

 

Lessons: Luke 1:5-25