Parish Newsletter – 21st December 2025 Dec 22, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Advent
What’s in a name?
King Ahaz could be honoured as the patron of sceptics. He simply would not rely on God to help him through the greatest crisis in his life. In the crisis facing his kingdom, he preferred to trust in his soldiers and his military plans. Are we much the same? Do we trust only the range of our own power and resources, and turn to the true God only as an extra insurance, a vague source of possible help in moments of crisis? But such faith is weak and inadequate. A fuller kind of faith would see us relying on God’s invisible, helping presence, not just in those moments when human support fails us. Real faith accepts the reality of God in every moment of life.