If you are a Christian, what are you waiting for?
Or, in other words, what is the content of Christian hope?
This is an advent question since the Christian faith is lived out in the overlap of the ages, awaiting the return of the King.
To make the question more specific, how is God’s judgment hopeful?
In her book of (mostly) sermons related to Advent preached over decades, Fleming Rutledge addresses this question from various angles.
One angle is how divine judgment is good news.
I’m referring mostly here to material from two sermons within a…



