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Anna | Week 04 December 23, 2024

December 23, 2024 • Dr. Kira Moolman Pettit, The Rev. Sutton Lowe

Dr. Kira Moolman Pettit and The Rev. Sutton Lowe discuss how Anna is unique in all the stories that we’ve shared this Advent. She is called a prophetess and, yet, none of her words are recorded directly in Scripture. This doesn’t mean that her prophetic voice is unheard. It means that her ordinary faithfulness of going to the temple to worship and to be with the people of God year after year, decade after decade was an act of bearing witness to who God is. This widow of many years continued to be be a part the faithful community and her reward was an unexpected encounter with an unlikely savior, Jesus. Her story means that we do not have to have visitations from angels or words spoken directly by the Holy Spirit to find Jesus. He comes to us in the most ordinary of ways.