Three Reasons to Celebrate Christmas
Scott Maze
Romans 8:31-39
It's Christmas Eve and we are grateful you are with us tonight to celebrate. I am grateful for our string quartet leading us tonight. Where would we be without the music of Christmas?
Christmas is the biggest holiday in American culture. The average American is expected to spend more than $1,000 on gifts and decorations in 2018 alone. Many cities will decorate its streets with images of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Grinch and Jack Frost, while town squares will display marquees of ''Noel,'' ''Happy Holidays,'' and ''Merry Christmas,'' in anticipation of the season's festivities. Most everyone will take at least one day off from work in hopes of celebrating together with family. Literally, millions of passengers will fill airports and cram themselves into tiny seats on planes in order to be with loved ones. Beyond our country's borders, the holiday's popularity is so widespread that even largely Muslim countries that spend most of the year ignoring the Son of God will pause to celebrate his birth. Imagine Islamic women wearing the hijab decorating Christmas trees and you get an idea of just how popular this holiday is around the globe.
Tonight's Scripture
''What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died-more than that, who was raised-who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,
''For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.''
37 No, in all these things we ar ...
Scott Maze
Romans 8:31-39
It's Christmas Eve and we are grateful you are with us tonight to celebrate. I am grateful for our string quartet leading us tonight. Where would we be without the music of Christmas?
Christmas is the biggest holiday in American culture. The average American is expected to spend more than $1,000 on gifts and decorations in 2018 alone. Many cities will decorate its streets with images of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Grinch and Jack Frost, while town squares will display marquees of ''Noel,'' ''Happy Holidays,'' and ''Merry Christmas,'' in anticipation of the season's festivities. Most everyone will take at least one day off from work in hopes of celebrating together with family. Literally, millions of passengers will fill airports and cram themselves into tiny seats on planes in order to be with loved ones. Beyond our country's borders, the holiday's popularity is so widespread that even largely Muslim countries that spend most of the year ignoring the Son of God will pause to celebrate his birth. Imagine Islamic women wearing the hijab decorating Christmas trees and you get an idea of just how popular this holiday is around the globe.
Tonight's Scripture
''What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died-more than that, who was raised-who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,
''For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.''
37 No, in all these things we ar ...
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