Messages on Christmas

Merry Christmas! This morning, we join together to celebrate the wonders of God’s great love!  The greatest gift ever given to us is Jesus, God’s own Son.  The wonders of the love of Jesus is expressed in countless ways.  His life lived in service to others, obedience to His Father, willingness to give His sinless life up as a sacrifice for our sins, and on and on.  However, one of the greatest wonders of His love is how He left…

Next week is Christmas!!! Christmas is a season of hope, of peace, of rejoicing.  It’s a season where we are more aware and intentional about serving the needs of those around us and showing loved ones just how much we care. It’s a season where there is a heightened expectation of the miraculous to occur. The miraculous arrival of Jesus came during a time of darkness and hopelessness.  For about 400 years, not much is recorded in regard to any…

As we continue on through the Christmas season, we’re reminded that God’s plans are very rarely in line with our own.  He doesn’t often work in the way in which we would expect Him to nor when we would expect Him to.  There is perhaps no better example of this reality than with the Christmas story. Even though the arrival of Jesus was prophesied about in great detail, even those who were scholars and teachers of these prophesies who were…

As we move from Thanksgiving into the Christmas season, we’re reminded of the name of Jesus both prophesied by Isaiah and also the name which the angel instructed Joseph to give to Mary’s child; Immanuel – God with us. This is a tremendous name that helps describe and understand more fully who God is.  He is the God who is with us.  This name for Jesus perfectly explains who Jesus truly was – God in the flesh.  However, that name…

This morning, we’re once again going to go back to that day when Jesus was born.  I believe that this morning, God desires for us to better understand what makes this season “Merry & Bright.”  When God became flesh and dwelt among us as a baby, it was certainly a time of great joy.  When Jesus was born, a great light entered the world that brought hope. In today’s world, we need to keep in mind this same hope that…

With Thanksgiving now behind us, it’s now the most wonderful time of the year!  Christmas music everywhere, lights all aglow, girls falling for the wrong guy in so many Hallmark movies, snow soon on its way, and Santa preparing for his big night.  This time of the year, it’s so easy for us to get caught up in the way that the world celebrates Christmas and to lose sight of the true reason for the season; Jesus! In fact, it’s…

This week, we’re completing our message series entitled, “Christmas.”  Through one of the greatest events in human history, we learn an amazing truth about God.  Paul wrote about this truth about God here:   1 Corinthians 1:26-29 26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to…

This week, we’re continuing our message series entitled, “Christmas.”  Through one of the greatest events in human history, we learn an amazing truth about God.  Paul wrote about this truth about God here:   1 Corinthians 1:26-29 26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to…

This week, we’re continuing our message series entitled, “Christmas.”  Through one of the greatest events in human history, we learn an amazing truth about God.  Paul wrote about this truth about God here:   1 Corinthians 1:26-31 26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to…

Malachi 3:1;4:5-6 1 “I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty.   5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children…