Pastor Doug’s Sunday sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent, drawn from Psalm 126. It is part of an Advent sermon series provided by The Foundry Publishing, to go with the Advent devotional “Joy of Every Longing Heart.”

Psalm 126 (NRSV):

1
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.
2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then it was said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3
The Lord has done great things for us,
and we rejoiced.

4
Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
like the watercourses in the Negeb.
5
May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.
6
Those who go out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
carrying their sheaves.