Lectionary Preaching Workbook
Wake up and watch is the biblical/liturgical theme for this First Sunday of Advent. It is a time to think seriously about the promise of the risen Christ to return again to judge, reign, and rule over the earth. There is a "Wake-up!-It's-later-than-you-think!" motif in the biblical fabric of the Advent season, and that note is clearly sounded on this Sunday. Future eschatology is the theological clue supplied by the church year and this First Sunday of Advent.