This coming Lord’s Day is the Second Sunday of Advent. Our sermon text will be taken from John 7:37-40, and the message is entitled “The Promises of Christmas: Living Water.”

As you spend time in prayer this weekend for our corporate worship, let me encourage you to reflect upon the larger context of our sermon passage, which is John 7:1-36.

As we see in the words of John 7:37-40, one of the major symbols of salvation to be found in both the Old and New Testaments is water. Correspondingly, thirst is a Biblical symbol of man’s alienation from God due to our sin.

In this episode from our Lord’s life, both of these images are beautifully joined to form another one of the great promises of Christmas. I can’t wait to discover it with you this Sunday!