Third Sunday of Advent

Advent can seem like a rude intrusion into our culture’s season of parties and gift-buying and looking our best. But the call to come clean before God is really what we need. Maybe that’s what attracted John’s original audience: they were responding to a Spirit-generated need to immerse themselves in a baptism of repentance, of reorienting their lives toward God. It’s time to come clean. A life that is truly repentant will display itself in right living, as God defines right living. John the Baptist tells us to do more than look good: walk the talk - bear the fruits of right living. Amen!