{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Holy Night: Dawning in the Darkness","description":"Karl Ihfe begins the Advent season by examining the challenge of waiting, particularly how God's people waited 400 years between the Old Testament prophecies and the fulfillment of God's promise to send a Messiah. During this silence, many likely wondered if God had forgotten them or if His promises were merely myths. Yet God's "impossible plan" unfolded through ordinary people\u2014a young girl named Mary and a carpenter named Joseph\u2014who chose to believe despite the impossibility of their situation. The sermon highlights how Mary and Joseph \u201cborrowed courage\u201d by remembering God's faithfulness throughout history. When the angel declared, "nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37), it was an invitation to remember how God had worked impossibly throughout Scripture\u2014from Abraham and Sarah's child in old age to the parting of the Red Sea. As we celebrate Advent, we too are invited to hope in the seemingly impossible promise of Christ's return, remembering that the God who fulfilled His promise in the first coming will be faithful to complete what He started. https:\/\/bwaychurch.org   ","author_name":"Broadway Church of Christ Sermon Series","author_url":"http:\/\/bwaycofc.libsyn.com","html":"