Messages on Christmas
Losing Jesus
Imagine being entrusted to babysit a very important person’s child… and then losing that child… for days. That’s what happened to Joseph and Mary when Jesus was twelve years old. The story almost sounds unimaginable, yet each of us can easily experience this tragedy in our own lives when we slowly lose our fervor for Jesus, and just like the church at Ephesus, lose our first love.
Christmas Under Attack
What if I told you the Christmas story you know is missing one of its darkest chapters? While we celebrate the peaceful manger scene, we rarely talk about what happened next: a middle-of-the-night escape, a government manhunt, and a massacre of innocent children. This sermon unpacks the shocking reality of Jesus’s first years—a story that reads more like a Hollywood thriller than a Christmas card. We’ll explore why foreign astrologers traveled 900 miles to worship a baby while a paranoid…
Mary: An Uncomfortable Situation
We love comfort and convenience, but what if God’s best work happens in our worst circumstances? This Christmas message takes you behind the scenes of the nativity story to reveal something we often miss: Mary’s birth experience was a total disaster by human standards. No home birth, no family nearby, a 70-mile journey while nine months pregnant, a stable instead of a nursery, and unexpected smelly shepherds showing up right after delivery. Yet Mary “treasured and pondered” these moments instead…
Joseph: You Are Not The Father
What if the Christmas story you’ve imagined—all calm, all bright, silent and serene—was actually more chaotic than you thought? This December, we’re diving into the messy reality of Mary and Joseph’s unplanned journey into parenthood. Forget the picture-perfect nativity scenes: this young couple faced scandal, shame, and a crisis that could have destroyed everything. Joseph woke up one morning to discover his fiancée was pregnant, and he knew it wasn’t his child. The law gave him every right to publicly…
God: The Original King
Explore Jesus as the King of Kings in this Christmas series, reflecting on God’s eternal reign and grace amidst our rejection.
The Angel’s Message to Mary
This evening, in our Christmas Eve service, we will finally get to the birth of Jesus. In the meantime, this morning, we will look at the Angel’s message to Mary, the young virgin girl who, like her older cousin Elizabeth, is told she will have a miraculous birth.
John The Baptist
After 400 years of silence since the end of the Old Testament, many people believe the birth of Jesus is the first time God shows up in the Bible.
The Virgin Mother
The fact that Jesus was conceived in the power of the Holy Spirit by a virgin as incredible implications for this God-man who is the perfect intersection of heaven and earth. How Babies are Made Today we are going back to high school. To high school health class. To a topic that made the kids giggle. The topic that made me hang out in the library for a week because my mom exempted me from it. SEX ED. I’m guessing…
Too Many Kings
The Christmas story includes numerous kings, with only one who rules over them all. In this message we look at how these men of power respond to the King sent by God and how we might respond to Him either like the magi who bow and worship or like King Herod who is disturbed and attacks. King of Our Castles Today we look at another group of “unlikely characters” who appear in the Christmas story. But first, let me ask…
Lowly Shepherds
The proclamation of the birth of Jesus was not first made to kings or religious elites, but to those outside the community – a group of shepherds watching their sheep at night. This important piece of the Christmas story teaches us that God’s heart has always been for the outsiders, and it still is today. BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS Today we’ll talk about the “unlikely characters” who received the very first proclamation of the birth of Jesus. Other than those in the…
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