LOVE CAME DOWN AT CHRISTMAS

(Sermon Advent 4, 2011 – St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Brighton – Fr. Rob Sweet)

You’ve heard the expression “ivory tower.” Here is the definition: “a place or condition of withdrawal from the world of action into a world of ideas and dreams.”

God has, at times, been described as a remote creator, uninvolved in the world — like an absentee landlord, or a watchmaker who put the world together, wound it up, and left us on our own to run.

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