Sermon
He Is With Us and Yet to Come
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Speaker: Jonathan Pokluda
December 1, 2025 · 50 min
Summary
Using the Advent hymn "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," the sermon explores how Jesus (Emmanuel, God with us) addresses three dimensions of human brokenness: wandering/exile, darkness, and chaos. Though Jesus has come, believers live in the "already/not yet" tension, finding comfort in his present companionship even as the world remains fractured.
Highlights
Christmas doesn't erase the ache that we feel in this world. It explains it.
Peace is not just the absence of chaos, it is the presence of Christ.
All of our brokenness here, all of our longing, all of our coping, all of our sadness, so much of our despair and depression, you're really just homesick.