Third Sunday of Advent
Luke 1:26-39
A teenage girl in an occupied territory receives an impossible announcement. The angel speaks of thrones overturned and proud rulers scattered—a revolution beginning not in palaces but in the womb of a young woman from nowhere important.
Mary's "yes" wasn't naive optimism. She knew the risks. She knew the scandal. She knew what empire does to prophets and troublemakers. Yet she said yes anyway. Today in worship, we'll consider what our own "yes" might look like when God asks us to carry light into impossible situations.
Additional scripture texts are Isaiah 9:2-7 and James 5:7-10.