Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for The Third Sunday of Advent, Year C

December 12, 2021

Comments by John Fairless

Zephaniah 3:14-20
The reading from Zephaniah gives us our first hint that today’s worship may not be entirely about the “gentle Jesus, meek and mild” (with a tip of the hat to Charles Wesley, of course!)

Celebrating a warrior God for Advent is more than a bit jangling to our nerves, and perhaps to our sensibilities. Yet, it is God…