First Sunday in Advent, November 28, 2021 Luke 21:25-36 This is the first Sunday in Advent, a day that re-enacts Israel’s’ historic longing for her Messiah, fulfilled in a Bethlehem stable at the dawn of the Christian era, and that simultaneously anticipates the second Advent, when Christ will return in power and all the glory of God. I came to faith in Christ on the heels of my father’s untimely death and immediately encountered a flurry of preaching about the “end-times.” I