“Perfect Love for Imperfection”
Sermon given by Pastor Robb on December 14, 2025.
Continues this years Advent sermon series. (Due to a blizzard, the traditional order of Advent themes was switched and we focused on Love this week so different people could participate with less barriers on other weeks.)
Covers Psalm 103:1-12 and Romans 5:1-11, as well as some classic Advent carols.
Some of our favorite Advent carols can be a little bit sappy when it comes to describing Jesus - like saying he didn’t cry as a baby, or had beams of light coming off his face. We can appreciate the artistic license, but maybe it also reveals something about our human struggles: it is hard for us to love in struggle and imperfection, so we can seek to prop up people and things in our eyes to make them easier to love. It is striking that Jesus himself shows how God does not have to do that for us, even if we do that a little for our perception of Emmanuel. How amazing that God loves us in our struggle, weakness and sin, and also sees the best in us to transform us and include us in the Kingdom.
