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Sermon: Repeat the Sounding Joy | Week 4: Joy as Ever-Present // Brent Levy

Sermon: Repeat the Sounding Joy | Week 4: Joy as Ever-Present // Brent Levy

Update: 2025-12-21
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December 21, 2025

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In this sermon, we dismantle the myth that joy is a prize to be earned or a mindset to be curated. Digging into the Christmas story—from the animals who bear witness to the cosmic claim of John’s sarx—we discover that God has already pitched a tent in the fragile, biological stuff of creation. Joy isn't a reward for overcoming; it's an ever-present sign of God’s presence, which holds us through everything and is simply waiting for our attention.

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Scripture: John 1:1–5, 14
O Magnum Mysterium

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Sermon: Repeat the Sounding Joy | Week 4: Joy as Ever-Present // Brent Levy

Sermon: Repeat the Sounding Joy | Week 4: Joy as Ever-Present // Brent Levy

Brent Levy