Preaching on John’s prologue (John 1:1-14) for this Christmas Eve, Rev. Cari declares her own need for comfort and joy, and wonders if others feel the same as her this Christmas.

A “sentimental” approach will not cut it for her this year, and so in hopes of a more robust faith, she goes on to open up three contentions within the text: the apparent absence of God & the promise of a saviour, the ability of God to save & the holy invitation to us to participate, the conviction that there is a vision worth investing with hope & the humility to engage it always provisionally, aware that one might be wrong about the details.

By the end, she quotes Maya Angelou’s Christmas poem “Amazing Peace,” as an invocation to the robust faith she is longing for. May you find that faith this Christmas, too.