Sermon for February 18th 2018 - Being in wilderness before Good News
Sermon for Sunday 18 th February 2018 First Sunday in Lent May the words of my mouth and meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, my lord, my God and redeemer. Amen Have you ever been in the wilderness? If you have, what was it like? I’d suggest it probably wasn’t what you expected. When I was growing up, the word wilderness would have evoked a place of adventure, perhaps like Lawrence of Arabia, riding into the sunset, or to me, I would picture Luke Skywalker from Star Wars watching two suns setting on a desert planet, waiting to escape the place he grew up and begin a life he couldn’t yet imagine. That moment for Luke was the beginning, he was being tested. The wilderness is almost always a challenge, a beginning, the start of something new. Wilderness is defined as an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region. On that basis, we do have wilderness i