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Sermon: Repeat the Sounding Joy | Week 1: Joy as Resistance // Brent Levy

Sermon: Repeat the Sounding Joy | Week 1: Joy as Resistance // Brent Levy

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November 30, 2025

Synopsis

In this sermon, we kick off our Advent series, Repeat the Sounding Joy: Practicing an Honest Advent, by reclaiming joy as a defiant and contagious act of resistance. Joy is not a denial of despair, but an empowering force that opens our lips and loosens our tongues to sing of a future that refuses to be limited by current reality. We explore how Elizabeth's loud blessing and Zechariah's prophetic song disrupt the silence of Empire, giving us the courage to bless what God is doing and declare the breaking dawn now.

References

Scripture: Luke 1:39–45; Luke 1:67–80

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