Third Sunday in Advent
“Patient Waiting”
Rev. Dan Kohn
7:30am & 9am Sunday, December 11, 2022 in the Upper Sanctuary
Trinity Lutheran Church & School
Wausau, Wisconsin

FOCUS There is so much joy in Advent—it simply must be shared! The weeks before Christmas bring a time of joyful preparation to our homes, our communities, and our churches. As people who are waiting to welcome the Lord Jesus once again, we make a priority of bringing His way straight into our lives. The many competing voices and sounds of the season may seek to distract us, but we know what our priorities are to be. We are listening for a specific sound— the sound of the good news of the coming Savior! Today in worship we sing and hear familiar carols and new pieces celebrating Christ’s birth and His coming again in glory. To provide new insight to familiar texts, we will read some of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor in Germany during World War II, and some from the pen of Susan Cherwien, a contemporary Christian poet. May God bless you through our worship this morning as we continue to wait and prepare for Christ to come again! “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!”