Sermon Illustrations for Advent 4 (2019)
Isaiah 7:10-16
Kindness seems in short supply today. Think of nastiness of a lot of social media posts – cyberbullying. The Cyberbullying Research Center reports that in 2016 38% of American children had experienced this at least once. Let’s not forget all the unkindness appearing on Twitter since the last Presidential election. Victorian-era art critic John Ruskin once put it just right: “A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”