You Need Christmas, Christmas #3
Jesus came to save people from their sins. We often settle in thinking that Jesus came to save us of our sins. There is a big difference, and if we are settling, we are missing out on more of the abundant life Jesus came to bring to all who would follow Him.
God Needed Christmas, Christmas #2
We don’t often think about Christmas from God’s perspective. Why did God see becoming human as worthwhile doing? What is God looking to communicate to us through coming as an ‘infant lowly’? Why did God need Christmas to fulfill His plan for humanity?
The World Needed Christmas, #1
Great events don’t happen in a vacuum. They are great events because things led up to that moment in time. The birth of Jesus didn’t just happen from God’s plan and perspective. God had been making promises to not just His people, but to the world that Christmas fulfilled. We look back and see the fulfillment. Those before looked forward wondering when God was going to act. We can be encouraged that when it may seem to us God isn’t at work, He still is … because He promised.
The Disabled God (Accessibility Sunday)
December 3rd is recognized by the United Nations as the International Day for Persons with Disabilities. As the church, we have a greater mandate to recognize, value and learn from those who struggle and live with disabilities. We have this mandate because we follow a God who disabled Himself, so that He could bring healing to our greatest disability as human beings… Our spiritual disability. Jesus became disabled (limited himself), to enable us to live and become like Him today, and in full when He returns.