The Lord’s servant

Dan Parnell | Luke 1:26-38 

The angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favour with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end."

Out of the blue, it seems, this teenage girl living in an obscure town is given a responsibility and a challenge that she could never have imagined. How does she respond? Dan explains what Mary was facing, and encourages us to trust God's call just as she did.

This is the image from Worcester Cathedral that Dan refers to in his talk:

A longer edited video recording of the Sunday service can be viewed on YouTube.