We will attempt to contrast Jesus’ first and second advents. The first advent was supposedly a still, silent, midnight-clear event and ‘silver and gold’ and children and smiles…and wide eyed animals looking on.  The second advent, however, does not lend itself to sugarcoating. As Scott Hoezee puts it:  “It’s difficult to imagine Hallmark producing rosy greeting cards about the stars going dark and falling from their orbits. It’s hard to imagine children listening with beatific smiles on their faces to a story about boiling oceans and people everywhere fainting from terror.  Contrasting these two advents is one way to uncover the true nature of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. For if we are unwilling to celebrate and acknowledge advent number two, then the first advent means nothing.  Luke 21.25-36

 When the sermon is at the point wgere Bob says “watch”, pause the sermon and listen to the “Wizards in Winter” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Viewed over 3 Million times on Youtube.