Keep Awake

Dec 3, 2023  •  The Rev. William Stokes

Two kinds of people fill the world, the punctual and the perpetually late, and God can seem to belong to the second. Reading Jesus' teaching in Mark 13 on the budding fig tree, the sermon argues that the signs of a breaking world point not to God's absence but to the Son of Man drawing near. A sleepless night in a Sewanee chapel, its doors flung open by the wind, frames Advent's first command: keep awake.