Today on Christmas morning, we complete the season of Advent, which has helped prepare our hearts for Christmas. Our Advent theme this year has been “An Invitation for All People.” Every Christmas is an open invitation from God to every person on planet earth to experience hope, peace, joy, and love through Christ Jesus. Because…
Today we continue the season of Advent, which helps prepare our hearts for Christmas. Our Advent theme this year is “An Invitation for All People.” Every Christmas is an open invitation from God to every person on planet earth to experience hope, peace, joy, and love through Christ Jesus. Because Jesus has already come once,…
Today we continue the season of Advent, which helps prepare our hearts for Christmas. Our Advent theme this year is “An Invitation for All People.” Every Christmas is an open invitation from God to every person on planet earth to experience hope, peace, joy, and love through Christ Jesus. Because Jesus has already come once,…
Today on the first Sunday of Advent, we light the first purple candle, the Candle of Hope. We take our reading from 1 Peter 1:3–5, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the…
In World War II, D-Day was great, the day the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy to begin taking back Europe from the Nazis. However, V-E Day was greater. On V-E Day, the Allied Forces celebrated victory with the unconditional surrender of the Nazi’s, ending the war in Europe. The mission was accomplished! The…
We are called by Jesus to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. That’s not just those who live next door to us, but they’re certainly included, and there is no better place to start than right next door. It’s not an accident that you are their neighbor. God wants to use you to show…
This week we continue our season of Advent, which is the Christian season of preparation for Christmas. Our theme this year is “Jesus Is the Answer.” This week we focus
This week we begin our season of Advent, which is the Christian season of preparation for Christmas. The word “advent” comes from the Latin word adventus, which means “coming” or “visit.” In the Advent season, we keep in mind both “advents,” both “visits” of Christ, the first in Bethlehem and the second yet to come.
Our theme this year is “Jesus Is the Answer.” This week we focus on
At the center of this and every Christian season is the baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. This mysterious bundle of joy is none other than the eternal Son of God who took on flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). That’s the very thing we celebrate here at Christmas—the enfleshing of the Son of God, the incarnation. He was sent on a mission from the Father to save sinners, and one of the absolutely necessary things Jesus had to do to complete His mission was take on a flesh and blood body just like we have. But, why was that so crucial? Why did Jesus take on flesh? The Bible gives us at least ten reasons.
“The Promised One of Old Is Finally Here” Welcome one and welcome all! Gather round, sit down, and hear Of the baby born in a manger stall, Who conquered death, sin, and fear. It’s a story ancient old, But some still fail to know it. So I bring it bold This morning afresh as a preacher poet. The beginning of that babe…