Hope from the Roots
An Advent Sermon on Isaiah
A Sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent
Preached at Christ Church, Little Rock, Arkansas
In my back yard there’s a stump, gray, old and rotting. Many years ago there was a sugarberry tree there. In the winter its fruit would feed robins and cedar waxwings, and in the summer its leaves would attract the caterpillars of Tawny Emperor, Ameri…