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Sunday, November 8Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

First Sunday of Advent

The sermon looks at Jesus' parable of the ten women waiting for the bridegroom and asks what it means to stay awake for a Christ who arrives not only at Christmas and at the end of the age, but in the ordinary and needy moments of the present.

What was preached

• Matthew 25:1–13
• Amos 5:24

• Why does Jesus tell the parable of the ten women, and what does it mean that all ten fell asleep before the bridegroom came?
• What does Amos mean when he says justice should roll down like water, and why does God question the worship of a people who sing and decorate but neglect the needy?

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