Making Christmas Meaningful Again
Advent Conspiracy 2019
Love All
The theme of the fourth and final week of Advent Conspiracy is Love All. In this sermon, Pastor Osheta draws from a famous Christmas song, “Do You Hear What I Hear?” to discern how the Good News about God’s love for all is spread from creation to the margins and from the margins to the powerful.
Give More
The theme of Advent week 3 in the Making Christmas Meaningful Again (Advent Conspiracy) series is Give More. This sermon is by Pastor Der Lor.
Spend Less
What does it look like to make Christmas meaningful again? How do we resist the powerful forces of consumerism and consumption? In week two of Advent, Emily Morrison explores the theme of “Spend Less” with a sermon from I Timothy 6.
Worship Fully
This Advent, Roots is joining with hundreds of other congregations in conspiring against consumerism in our Christmas celebrations. The first theme of Advent Conspiracy is “Worship Fully.” In this sermon, Pastor T. C. explores the way we are formed by embodied practices. The apostle Paul teaches us to “offer our bodies as living sacrifices” to have our “minds renewed.” Every day in a thousand subtle ways we are being formed into individualistic consumers. Corporations don’t aim their ads primarily at…