This Sunday is the second Sunday of Advent and I will be preaching from Mathew 3: 1- 10. This text introduces us to John the Baptist who came to prepare a way for the Messiah. Leon Morris in his book, ‘the gospel according to John’ states that; “The fact that the birth of Christianity was such a resounding phenomenon, impacting the ancient world tremendously, and echoing marvelously across the centuries, is, in some measure, a commentary on how well John accomplished his miss