Advent 2024: The Light Has Come - Rich Bowpitt

Oasis Church Birmingham: Talks

Advent means ‘arrival’ or ‘appearing’, and is an annual season for engaging with the reality of the ‘time between’ the comings of Christ. It is not simply the ‘build up to Christmas’, as if we pretend Jesus has not yet been born and then celebrate his birth. Rather, it is ‘forward leaning’ and engages with the unseen forces at work in the world, facing the darkness, embracing the light, and encouraging us in how to wait patiently whatever situations we are living with. In this second talk, Rich looks at the promise in the Old Testament that the light is coming, the arrival of the light through the life of Jesus, and how the light coming changes everything for us and for our world.