What do you do when the stress, cares, and bad headlines of this world weigh you down and threaten to choke out the life-giving good news of the Gospel? As Advent begins, Melissa Florer-Bixler looks to this week’s passage in the Gospel of Luke for inspiration. Jesus had just finished informing his followers that imprisonment and persecution would come to them. He instructed, however, that the way out of this looming fear was not through mental and physical distractions, but (rather paradoxically) from paying more attention…to the right things. Look beyond all the catastrophes and drama and focus on the fact that the Kingdom of God is at hand. Relentless, renewing, and fruit-bearing, you will know that this verdant Kingdom is God is coming the same as the leaves appearing on the fig tree foretell to us that summer is coming. Join Melissa as she shares her thoughts on this topic.
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