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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Description: Through this Advent season we are reading words of Isaiah, and today’s prophecy of “Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People” comes from chapter 40 but is also familiar to us as the first choral movement in G. F. Handel’s Messiah. The message comes to a people whose city, Jerusalem, has been devastated, the temple destroyed, and they have been displaced and are certainly in need of comfort. That message of comfort is followed by a command to make a straight path through the desert, lowering the mountains, raising the valleys, to prepare for the Lord’s coming. We, too, need comfo...