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Advent 2025 - The Spirit Who Forms Us and Gifts Us
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In this episode of the Village Sermon Series on Advent 2025, Eric continues with Week 2 by focusing on the Holy Spirit who forms us and equips us for Kingdom life. He reminds us that Advent begins with the Spirit overshadowing Mary, the moment when Jesus was conceived. From there, he traces how Advent speaks of arrival and coming, and how we now live between Jesus’ first breath in Bethlehem and His return. Eric invites us to look ahead with hope, trusting the Spirit who empowers us to walk in the works of Jesus as we wait.
Pastors Eric, Mark, Susan, Daniel, and other Village leaders open the Scriptures as the witness to God’s kingdom breaking into our lives. Scripture gives us more than abstract ideas. It is the Word of God, given to form us, confront us, comfort us, and teach us how to follow Jesus.
Each episode invites us to listen and respond. We are learning to understand the Bible more faithfully; we are also learning how to live as God’s renewed people.
Week by week, our pastors and leaders talk about the practices of Christian discipleship, including prayer, fasting, generosity, Scripture memory, worship, and life together. These practices belong to a whole life formed around Jesus.
The podcast also speaks to ordinary places where faith is lived; our relationships, finances, habits, struggles, joys, and decisions. The gospel speaks to what we believe. It also teaches us how to live in the present age as people who belong to the kingdom of God.
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