Christmas Eve Celebration
Scott Maze
Luke 1:31-35
Merry Christmas to your family and your and we are grateful you are joining us for our Christmas Eve celebration. We are delighted to have you join us this evening. I love hearing the strings celebrate Christmas for us and this team did not disappoint.
Christmas is celebrated for some many reasons on so many levels. Many of us love the sentimental notions of Christmas. Picture the quintessential Christmas dinner with all the generations sitting around a table loaded with holiday favorites. A perfect fire crackles in the fireplace while fresh snow is falling outside. I think I have described just about every Hallmark Christmas movie in existence!
Others love how Christmas affords them a time to reflect as the year winds down. Plus, there are usually several days off from work, which is always a welcome relief. Yet, Christmas affords us a great opportunity to witness God keeping His promises.
Christmas does not begin in the gospels. Christmas did not start with Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and the angels. The truth is the story of Christmas begins years before this. Seven hundred years before the Wise Men gave, the angels sang, or the shepherds came. Isaiah explains what Christmas is all about. I invite you to turn your Bible to Isaiah 7 in the moments to come.
One of America's favorite holiday songs this time of year is the classic, I'll Be Home for Christmas. The song was originally written during WW II to honor soldiers who longed to be home for the holidays. It's been sung by the likes of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Kelly Clarkson, and most recently, Pentatonix. The lyrics of the song make this promise:
I'll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents by the tree.
Promises - so easy to make, but so hard to keep.
Isaiah 7 predicts how the Messiah is to be born.
Isaiah 9 predicts how the Messiah will bless.
Throughout this evening, I want y ...
Scott Maze
Luke 1:31-35
Merry Christmas to your family and your and we are grateful you are joining us for our Christmas Eve celebration. We are delighted to have you join us this evening. I love hearing the strings celebrate Christmas for us and this team did not disappoint.
Christmas is celebrated for some many reasons on so many levels. Many of us love the sentimental notions of Christmas. Picture the quintessential Christmas dinner with all the generations sitting around a table loaded with holiday favorites. A perfect fire crackles in the fireplace while fresh snow is falling outside. I think I have described just about every Hallmark Christmas movie in existence!
Others love how Christmas affords them a time to reflect as the year winds down. Plus, there are usually several days off from work, which is always a welcome relief. Yet, Christmas affords us a great opportunity to witness God keeping His promises.
Christmas does not begin in the gospels. Christmas did not start with Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and the angels. The truth is the story of Christmas begins years before this. Seven hundred years before the Wise Men gave, the angels sang, or the shepherds came. Isaiah explains what Christmas is all about. I invite you to turn your Bible to Isaiah 7 in the moments to come.
One of America's favorite holiday songs this time of year is the classic, I'll Be Home for Christmas. The song was originally written during WW II to honor soldiers who longed to be home for the holidays. It's been sung by the likes of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Kelly Clarkson, and most recently, Pentatonix. The lyrics of the song make this promise:
I'll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents by the tree.
Promises - so easy to make, but so hard to keep.
Isaiah 7 predicts how the Messiah is to be born.
Isaiah 9 predicts how the Messiah will bless.
Throughout this evening, I want y ...
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