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The God Who Is There

Note: this message follows the lectionary reading for December 27, but obviously can be preached before Christmas if you change the introduction.

Do you ...


God wants to be involved in our lives day-to-day.

Steve May

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God's Christmas Grace

The world system that you and I are part of has been celebrating the holiday called Christmas. And on that holiday, people have benefited by it. Gifts ...


God orchestrated Jesus' birth to bring us grace.

Tony Evans

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The Sleepy Invasion

The stage was set. It was finally the fullness of time. The world had long been in prison, caught in a web of sin and death, controlled by a network of ...


Jesus became human so that he could be the Savior we need

Darrell Johnson

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For Those Who Are Disappointed

Will you agree with me that the Christmas season is the most , time of the year? Would you also agree with me that the Christmas season can be the ...


Our expectations are fully realized in the complete work of Jesus.

Darrell Johnson

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Hark! the Herald Angels

We're thinking together on these Sundays of Advent of the symphony of our salvation, and this morning we come to the third movement of that symphony, ...


Those who accept the Christ child have Christmas forever in their hearts.

Bruce Thielemann

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On Beyond Zebra

This morning I want to launch us into the message with a reading from one of the great minds in theology, Dr. Seuss. I have here a copy of On Beyond ...


We have no category for a Virgin Birth or a God-man but we must accept this unique baby to understand Christmas.

Vic Pentz

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Glory to God in the Lowest

Christmas is a time of surprises. A lady was preparing her Christmas cookies. There came a knock at the door. She went to find a man, his clothes poor, ...


The meaning of Christmas is best pondered in silent humility.

Bruce Thielemann

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Levi's Genes

Everybody knows the genealogies are the biggest yawn in the Bible. "Rehoboam begat Abijah, and Abijah begat Ralph"I mean it warms your heart about as ...


We tend to gloss over these verses, but there's so much information about us, about the human condition, and about our Savior buried between the lines.

Vic Pentz

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Grace at Christmas

Those of us from a western culture somehow take all of our techniques and apply them when we come to a genealogy. If the Bible were all genealogies, we ...


By including notorious sinners in the genealogy of Christ, God shows us that his grace extends to everyone.

David Krentel

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A Faith Like Mary's

It may very well be the story in the Bible. The account was read to you this morning of the angel Gabriel's appearance before a young, Jewish peasant ...


God entered human history through Mary because she was open to his will and obedient.

Ben Patterson

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A Twinge of Nostalgia

One wintry day the children put a top hat on their snowman, and, in a spell of Christmas magic, he came to life.

Frosty the Snowman showed those children ...


We must live in the present in order to seize the future God has planned for us.

Vic Pentz

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Christmas 365 Days a Year

We often talk about the night before Christmas, but what do you think about on the morning after Christmas? I've been thinking about this wonderful ...


There's something about the "Christmas spirit"—kindness, generosity, peace, goodwill—that we long for all year round…indeed, for all eternity.

Stuart Briscoe

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Getting Sober For Christmas

When you drive long distances, as some of you just did for Thanksgiving, it is so easy to be lulled into a state of . I'm sure you know what I'm talking ...


John had some harsh words for his listeners, words that caused them to sober up and turn their attention to God. It's a good word for us today as well.

Mary Graves

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Martin Luther's Christmas Sermon


Jesus came into this world to lay down his life for our salvation.

Roland Bainton

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Design, Not Despair

After reading that genealogy, believe it or not, I have a message of hope for you today. I begin on that positive note because I sense that some of you ...


The orderliness of Matthew’s genealogy shows that God is in control and can use anybody for his purposes.

Gordon Terpstra

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Seeing the Light
Seeing the Light

We're all familiar with the traditions relating to the Wise Men. For instance, for some reason we've decided there were three of them. The Bible doesn't ...


Humans have spirituality, but unless we believe in Christ, we do not have life.

Stuart Briscoe

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Jesus Came to Be the Light

About twenty years ago a house near the entrance of our subdivision kept their Christmas lights burning long into January, even though the Christmas season ...


Light accompanied Jesus at his birth, and it’s been with him, and us, ever since.

Bob Russell

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A God's-Eye View of Christmas

 

At the turn of the millennium, people are looking back to the great events of the twentieth century: the amazing journeys people have made, ...


The Incarnation involved an awesome journey that would change the face of history.

Leith Anderson

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Blood in Bethlehem

Two weeks ago NPR carried a story about plans to spruce up Bethlehem, the dusty little Palestinian town of Jesus' Nativity. Tourists take the bus from ...


Jesus saves us from the terrible condition we are really in.

William Willimon

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A Wonderful Night

W. Would you look at those stars! There's Orion and the Pleiades, a shooting star ... and another one! Aah, I will never get tired of looking at the night ...


God sent his son Jesus Christ as Savior even for unclean people like shepherds.

Bryan Wilkerson

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Christmas As the Angels Saw It

The words we are going to read from Scripture were probably part of a hymn sung by the early Christian believers. You'll notice that the first line of ...


We are to tell the nations what the angels have seen of Jesus.

Colin Smith

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When God Bent Down
When God Bent Down

Before there were vast black holes sucking matter into the staggering abyss of interstellar space; before there existed stardust and subatomic particles ...


Christ stooped so low to show us his unimaginable glory.

Dan Meyer

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The Purpose of Christmas
The Purpose of Christmas

First John 1:1—4:

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands ...


Because Christ came, we have a joy that transforms our lives.

Timothy Keller

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God's Marshmallow Test

Back in the 1970s a research team of psychologists from Stanford University performed on a group of 4 an experiment they called the "marshmallow test." ...


To wait well, our hearts must be filled with hope that is focused on Jesus.

Scott Wenig

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A Tiny Gift- Strangely Wrapped, Silently Delivered
A Tiny Gift- Strangely Wrapped, Silently Delivered

Introduction

Since the Christmas season began, one word has fallen from our lips more than any other. Maybe you haven't stopped to think about which ...


In the birth of Jesus, God has delivered an indescribable gift to us.

Charles Swindoll

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