Sermon- Thirteenth in a Sermon Series on Promises, Perils, and Possibilities.December 8, 2024, Second Sunday of AdventScripture Text:  Joel 2:12-13, 28-29 O. E. Rolvaag’s novel Giants in the Earth tells the story of Norwegian immigrant families who settled in South Dakota in the 1870s. In one scene three farmers look toward the sky and see a sight such that they had never seen before.     From out of the west layers of clouds came rolling—thin layers that rose and sank on the breeze;    they had