Advent with my buddy Isaiah

This advent we are going through selected passages in Isaiah while reading the gospel of Mark as a church. Isaiah 40:1-11 was yesterday. God is our comforter and Isaiah is told to emphatically preach God's comfort to his people and to do it tenderly. This is a struggle for younger "reformed" pastors as they love to preach about sin and repentance but they also need to preach God's comfort through the propitiation and reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ. As one of those "younger reformed" pastors. I consider myself sufficiently rebuked...now I need some comforting...