Text: Luke 12:29-38
Title: We Worry
Preacher: Rev. Greg Brower
We long for more. Especially at Christmastime, we long for more. Not the common longing for toys and family, carols and jolly feelings, eggnog and Santa. But a real, deep longing for something that actually fills us up and satisfies. We long for Christ to be with us. Even those of us with Christ in our lives are often overwhelmed by the wants and worries of life. We waver and we grow weary. Can this human longing for more, which is so endemic in our lives, be overcome at Christmas? There is only one possible, positive answer to that question: Christ. We are a people who worry. We worry about war and global warming, politics and finances, kids and parents. We worry about the amount of our worry. Jesus reminds us today how we can be a people of quiet confidence rather than fret and worry.