Sermons from December 2024

The First Sunday after Christmas December 29, 2024 Luke 2:1-20 The Gift of God— God Gives Heaven’s Best Gift in Earth’s Unlikeliest Place!   1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register. 4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem…

The Fourth Sunday in Advent December 22, 2024 Luke 1:39-55 A Real Christmas— A Real Christmas Lifts Up the Lowly!   39At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will…

The Third Sunday in Advent December 15, 2024 Luke 3:7-18 A Real Christmas— A Real Christmas Results in Great Joy!   7John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for…

The Second Sunday in Advent December 8, 2024 Luke 3:1-6 A Real Christmas— A Real Christmas Is Rooted in Repentance!   1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— 2during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the desert. 3He went into all the country around the…

The First Sunday in Advent December 1, 2024 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 A Real Christmas— A Real Christmas Requires Remembering Why Christ Came!   9How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? 10Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith. 11Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear…