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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: From Lament to Hope
Description: This is the first Sunday in Advent, and our scripture is from Isaiah’s words to people who had great reason to feel that God had abandoned them. The prophet describes a God who had done awesome deeds in the past, but then God’s abandonment had given rise to the people’s abandonment of God. The prophet speaks of repentance, a turning around of the people, and a cry out to God to return with all of the mighty presence and works God had exhibited in the past. On the people’s side, besides repenting they are to wait in hope...