08 Dec 2024 Sermon "On the Way to Bethlehem - Peace" Luke 1:5-17 & Romans 12:9-18.

Dear Listener, Please turn the volume up for the Sermon. 
In the excitement of the day when beloved, retired South Arm Minister The Rev. Gary Gaudin and his beautiful wife Peggy came to pay tribute to our retiring Music Minister Ron plus the Pageant energy, it seems our Minister Lauren forgot to turn on her lapel microphone for the sermon. So, you are picking up the sound from the pulpit microphone a few feet away. While serving in the Temple, Zechariah has an angel visitation and receives incredible news that his wife Elizabeth will conceive and bear a child who will be great, will have the Holy Spirit within him from within the womb and throughout his life. This baby will be great news to them, the community and far beyond as this child, John the Baptist, will draw people back to relationship with God and ... prepare "The Way" for one even greater to come!

 Music between the scripture and sermon "We Are Pilgrims" (Voices United Hymnal #595). Words & Music: Richard Gillard, 1977, arr. Betty Pulkingham. Copyright Universal Music-Brentwood Bensen Publ. (ASCAP). Podcast/Streamed with Permission under One License Number: A-607425 & CCLI 2453477