In the Wilderness Prepare

The Rev. Dr. David A. Davis' sermon of December 4, 2005, the Second Sunday of Advent on Mark 1:1-9. We open our church year with a gospel, quite unlike the other three "where there’s no story of a birth, no pageant. Jesus didn’t come by way of Bethlehem, or the inn, or the manger. In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus came here in the wilderness, our wilderness."