A Sermon by Pastor Chico Martin
December 3, 2017 1 Advent Year B
Lections: Isaiah 64:1-9, Mark 13:24-37
We begin our celebration of the new Church year with a verse from Isaiah, “O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand” (64:8). Isaiah is telling us God shapes each person, much like a potter shapes clay; clay is a symbol for what comes out of the earth. We can dig clay in the fields behind the parsonage, and this marks the distinction between God and persons: God creates the material world, and we are creatures made from the stuff of that creation, stuff like clay. The potter God, however, is not fashioned by clay. The one God, creator of everything that is, doesn’t even exist in the sense that the person, a creature, does. Continue reading