WAITING WELL (1 OF 3)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Luke 2:21-27, Luke 2:29-33
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Waiting Well (1 of 3)
Series: A Weary World Rejoices
Craig Smith
Luke 2:21-33
I. Introduction
Hey, I don't know if anyone's said it to you yet, but if not, let me be the first to say ''merry Christmas.'' It is officially the Christmas season now and we're starting our Christmas series today. The theme of our series this year is A Weary World Rejoices. And we chose that theme for two reasons:
1. First, I think we're all on the weary side of the spectrum and we could all use a reason to rejoice and we think Christmas is that reason. We think that the birth of Jesus is worth rejoicing over even if the circumstances we presently find ourselves in aren't exactly what we would have chosen.
2. The second reason we chose this theme is because we realized that it's pretty easy to look at everything that's happened in 2020 and think ''this is the worst year ever'' or ''it's never been this bad.'' But as weary as we might be right now, the reality is that the world was pretty weary at the first Christmas too. No, they didn't have Covid...but there were a lot of diseases that caused a lot of pain and suffering and diseases like leprosy kept families apart. No, they didn't have the George Floyd tragedy, but racial injustice and social unrest? Absolutely. No, they didn't have a contentious election, but political turmoil, even to the point of rioting and military intervention? Check.
And so we thought, ''well, if that weary world could rejoice in the birth of Jesus, then maybe our weary world can rejoice to.'' So what we're going to do in this series is lean into what the Christmas story has to teach us about what it means to rejoice in spite of the fact that we're all weary.
Now, certainly, 2020 has given us lots of things to be weary of, but for me, the most wearying part of 2020 has been all the waiting. Anybody else feel that way? We've been waiting for the numbers to go down, for the masks to come off, for the vaccine to come out, for schools and re ...
Series: A Weary World Rejoices
Craig Smith
Luke 2:21-33
I. Introduction
Hey, I don't know if anyone's said it to you yet, but if not, let me be the first to say ''merry Christmas.'' It is officially the Christmas season now and we're starting our Christmas series today. The theme of our series this year is A Weary World Rejoices. And we chose that theme for two reasons:
1. First, I think we're all on the weary side of the spectrum and we could all use a reason to rejoice and we think Christmas is that reason. We think that the birth of Jesus is worth rejoicing over even if the circumstances we presently find ourselves in aren't exactly what we would have chosen.
2. The second reason we chose this theme is because we realized that it's pretty easy to look at everything that's happened in 2020 and think ''this is the worst year ever'' or ''it's never been this bad.'' But as weary as we might be right now, the reality is that the world was pretty weary at the first Christmas too. No, they didn't have Covid...but there were a lot of diseases that caused a lot of pain and suffering and diseases like leprosy kept families apart. No, they didn't have the George Floyd tragedy, but racial injustice and social unrest? Absolutely. No, they didn't have a contentious election, but political turmoil, even to the point of rioting and military intervention? Check.
And so we thought, ''well, if that weary world could rejoice in the birth of Jesus, then maybe our weary world can rejoice to.'' So what we're going to do in this series is lean into what the Christmas story has to teach us about what it means to rejoice in spite of the fact that we're all weary.
Now, certainly, 2020 has given us lots of things to be weary of, but for me, the most wearying part of 2020 has been all the waiting. Anybody else feel that way? We've been waiting for the numbers to go down, for the masks to come off, for the vaccine to come out, for schools and re ...
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