The DarkSide of Christmas
Donald Cantrell
Luke 1: 78 - 79
This sermon is a very different type of Christmas sermon “The DarkSide of Christmas”, It deals with those that have trouble with the holidays, due to loneliness, loss, addictions. I try to help the pastors that may be dealing with an addiction in this sermon.
I - The Dayspring and his Introduction (78)
A) Christ and his Coming (78a)
B) Christ and his Concern (78b)
II - The Darkness and his Intention (79a)
A) The Gift that Christ Shared
B) The Grief that Christ Shattered
III - The Dismayed and his Invitation (79b)
A) Help for the Helpless
B) Peace for the Peaceless
Theme: ''The Christmas season is not fun and festive for everyone''
The Dayspring
''Jesus has come, moreover, not as a blaze which will soon die down, but as a light which will last our day, yea, last forever. After the long dark and cold night of our misery, the Lord comes in the fittest and most effectual manner; neither as lightning, nor candle, nor flaming meteor, but as the sun which begins the day... The visits of God are like the dayspring, because they end our darkness. The dayspring banishes the night... Our night is ended once for all when we behold God visiting us in Jesus Christ. Our day may cloud over, but night will not return. O, you that are in the blackest midnight, if you can but get a view of Christ, morning will have come to you!''
Charles Spurgeon, ''The Tender Mercy of our God''
The very basis for the song ''O Holy Night'' is based upon Jesus Christ and his visitation as the ''Dayspring'' of God. Jesus did not just randomly appear but he came with a divine and definitive purpose and that was to bring light to those that had been living in darkness for the last 400 years.
The Jews had not had a visitation from God for 400 years and the world was living in utter despair and unfathomable darkness. The ''Dayspring'' from on high arrived with a light that would forever penetrate darkness. ...
Donald Cantrell
Luke 1: 78 - 79
This sermon is a very different type of Christmas sermon “The DarkSide of Christmas”, It deals with those that have trouble with the holidays, due to loneliness, loss, addictions. I try to help the pastors that may be dealing with an addiction in this sermon.
I - The Dayspring and his Introduction (78)
A) Christ and his Coming (78a)
B) Christ and his Concern (78b)
II - The Darkness and his Intention (79a)
A) The Gift that Christ Shared
B) The Grief that Christ Shattered
III - The Dismayed and his Invitation (79b)
A) Help for the Helpless
B) Peace for the Peaceless
Theme: ''The Christmas season is not fun and festive for everyone''
The Dayspring
''Jesus has come, moreover, not as a blaze which will soon die down, but as a light which will last our day, yea, last forever. After the long dark and cold night of our misery, the Lord comes in the fittest and most effectual manner; neither as lightning, nor candle, nor flaming meteor, but as the sun which begins the day... The visits of God are like the dayspring, because they end our darkness. The dayspring banishes the night... Our night is ended once for all when we behold God visiting us in Jesus Christ. Our day may cloud over, but night will not return. O, you that are in the blackest midnight, if you can but get a view of Christ, morning will have come to you!''
Charles Spurgeon, ''The Tender Mercy of our God''
The very basis for the song ''O Holy Night'' is based upon Jesus Christ and his visitation as the ''Dayspring'' of God. Jesus did not just randomly appear but he came with a divine and definitive purpose and that was to bring light to those that had been living in darkness for the last 400 years.
The Jews had not had a visitation from God for 400 years and the world was living in utter despair and unfathomable darkness. The ''Dayspring'' from on high arrived with a light that would forever penetrate darkness. ...
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