SERMONS ON ADVENT
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Advent: Do You Know What Time it Is?
by Jackie Prim
Today is the first Sunday of the Advent season. It marks our focus on the coming of the Lord. But our focus should not be limited to the celebration of the birth of the Christ child. It is equally important that we focus our attention to the second coming of the Lord. He is coming back, church. And I honestly believe He's on His way. Things are lining up according to the Word of God. Are you paying attention to what's going on in the Middle East? With Israel? The time is not as long as it has been. So are you ready for Christ to return? I'm not asking if you are anticipating His appearance - but are you ready for it? Our text lets us know...
Advent and the Affection of God (4 of 5)
by Drew Hunter
William Wilberforce was a member of parliament in Britain in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He dedicated his life to politics and the world was changed because of him. At this time in Britain slavery was widespread and the slave trade was in full force. The culture was corrupt in many ways. In his first few years in parliament, he said he didn't accomplish much of anything useful. But then he became a Christian. And when he became a Christian, everything changed for him. He dedicated his life to eradicating the slave trade and slavery from Britain. He wrote, ''The grand object of my parliamentary existence...may I be the...
The Second Advent in Relation to the Jew (7 of 11)
by E.W. Bullinger
We have before us in these words a large and important subject, so large that volumes have been written upon it without exhausting it; so important that it forms the very fabric of this blessed Book. It is impossible to do more than glance at its outlines in one brief address. But no consideration of the subject can be satisfactory that does not go back to the beginning and lay its foundations deep in the everlasting covenant referred to so pointedly in our text, "This is my covenant." All God's dealings with Israel, past, present, and future, spring from this covenant. All are based upon it. Israel is beloved for the fathers' sakes, for what God has...
A Humble Christmas: A Christmas Sermon
by Jonathan McLeod
''And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger'' (Luke 2:12). MY FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL My favorite Christmas special is A Charlie Brown Christmas. It first aired on December 9, 1965 and was based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz. A Charlie Brown Christmas was the second-ever Christmas special. (The first was Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.) It was originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. Have you ever noticed that the last few words of ''Hark! The Herald Angels Sing'' fade out abruptly, cutting out the last few words? That's because at that moment...
Advent Awaits
by M. Jolaine Szymkowiak
Advent - The season of waiting for the expected Christmas holiday is charged with anticipation. With that sense of anticipation, there is a tendency for a person to get overwhelmed and so caught up in the involvement of Advent and Christmas that one gets frazzled and finds fault with everything and everyone. Guilt follows, and at times one is incompetent to have meaningful relationships with friends or family. Sometimes to find a place to hide during the holidays is wanted. We find these words in Titus, ''For the grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all, training us to renounce irreligious and worldly...
Advent Meditations
by Kenneth C. Kroohs
I considered beginning with a couple "Happy New Year's" jokes as I do most years. Since today is the first day of the new church year, that would be appropriate, if somewhat overdone. Then I realized that this was the real millennium! So I could re-cycle some old millennium jokes! If the end of the world was scheduled for the end of the year 1999, it makes sense that it would be the end of the church year 1999! So millennium jokes would work!! Fortunately for you I threw out both those approaches. Advent is much too important to joke away. Our world, our culture ... that set of influences Jesus continually tells us to reject...
Star of Wonder
by Tony Nester
One of my favorite Christmas carols has always been ‘‘We Three Kings’’. The melody has a lilting movement to it that helps us feel the movement of the magi riding on camels from the East toward Bethlehem. The carol lifts up the ‘‘Star of Wonder’’ that inspired the three kings to undertake their journey and it shines on many of the Christmas cards we’ve been opening in our mail. We’ll sing the hymn at the close our service today, and I hope it elicits some feeling of wonder in your heart for the Christmas story. In seminary I learned from worship experts that we shouldn’t sing ‘‘We Three Kings’’ during Advent or Christmas. That’s because it’s not...
An Advent of Peace
by Bob Wickizer
I want you to know that I racked my poor brain and scoured the Internet for a proper Advent joke. You can find lots of Christmas jokes but of course, there are only 12 days of Christmas and 28 days of Advent. What is with this world anyway? So I offer you this item of wit from the radio program, “Car Talk,” “Jesus is coming. Look busy.” With that in mind, I want you to take a 3x5 card and pencil and write down on it the top 5 things you want to accomplish this month. Take a minute to write them down and hold onto the card. [pause] Part of our challenge today is the appearance of John the Baptist. He introduces the...
The Emotions Of Christmas
by Rex Yancey
Christmas is a busy time of the year. We are busy celebrating, communicating, decorating, renovating, and dissipating that we forget about the one we should be elevating. -Elderly man came to the young doctor in a small town. The young doctor was nervous as he asked the man about his symptoms. He listened to all his ailments and was contemplating his diagnosis. However, he had no clue. "Have you ever had this before?" The old man said, "Yes." The young doctor said, "Well, you've got it again!" That same feeling grips us as we once again face a Christmas season. We look for Christmas to bail us...
Advent - JOY (3 of 3)
by Rich Wooten
So, we come to week 3 of our Advent Series. Thus far, we have looked at HOPE and PEACE. The incarnation has brought these in abundance, some of it is expressed in our world now, and for believers, the ultimate reality of HOPE and PEACE is reserved for the world to come. But we have a responsibility, as we found out, to be bearers of both HOPE and PEACE to a broken world, to be the extension of the incarnation to our darkened world. It is overwhelming, but at the same time, so rewarding! To be the ones entrusted with the message of eternal HOPE and PEACE is a wonderful expression of trust on the part of our...
A Joy that Trembles (5 of 5)
by Wyman Richardson
James Montgomery Boice has passed on a very interesting story about our text. The last section of this chapter contains some of the most moving verses in all the Bible. On one occasion it was used by Benjamin Franklin, who was not a Christian, to confound some of the sophisticated, cultured despisers of the Bible whom he met in Paris when he was serving as United States Plenipotentiary to that country. The skeptics were mocking him for his admiration of the Bible. So he decided to find out how well they knew the book they professed to scorn. One evening he entered their company with a manuscript that contained an ancient...
Detangling Christmas
by Robert Dawson
To help manage the stress of getting ready for Christmas—with all that shopping, cleaning, and getting those Christmas decorations up—at least one company is trying to help. Tesco, a British supermarket company, posted an ad for a new job—a Christmas Light Untangler. The company's website offered the following description for the 36-hour-a-week job: "This new position will offer you the chance to show that every little bit helps, by running the unique in-store service with a friendly, flexible approach and making a genuine difference to the little things that matter to our customers this Christmas." The first duty includes...
The Christmas Family
by Zach Terry
I'd like to begin today with a fictional story, more of what C.S. Lewis called a Supposal. Suppose we were allowed to look into what occurred in heaven just before Messiah was born. This is what my sanctified imagination came up with…A Christmas Supposal: It happened many years ago, although in the Celestial City, time is irrelevant. The Angelic Hosts were gathered in two companies before the Great Throne, arranged by their rank and duty. The two great ones, Michael and Gabriel, were seated on lesser thrones at the head of each company, with scores of cherubs, seraphs, and soldiers arranged behind them...
The Grace of Christmas (1 of 4)
by Stan Coffey
I want to begin a new series of messages on the Christmas story. What a wonderful time of the year this is. I was reading the other day about a little boy. Children are so honest. He had received a Christmas present; he was writing back to his grandmother. He said, ''Dear Grandmother, Thank you so much for the wonderful Christmas present. It was almost as good as the one I really wanted.'' Thank God we have a Christmas present in the Lord Jesus Christ: He's not only the One we wanted, but He's also the One we needed. In Matthew 1, you find the genealogy of Jesus. As we begin this series, we're going to look at Matthew 1...
The Pain of Christmas
by Steve Jones
Let's begin today by playing "Name That Tune." I'm going to play some instrumental snippets of traditional Christmas songs and you see how soon you can guess the tune. (Play notes from Jingle Bells, Rudolph, Frosty, Silver Bells, Silent Night and ending with the theme from Jaws.) Now what is that last song doing in there? Christmas songs, by definition, are supposed to be upbeat, joyful and happy because that's the nature of the Christmas story. We don't typically associate songs with a connotation of danger/pain/death with Christmas. But maybe we should for those elements ARE in the Biblical story of Christmas. Today...
Advent Sermon: Waiting With the Word
by Brian Fletcher
Advent is a season of waiting with expectation and anticipation that Christ, the Messiah is coming and that when he does he will make all things new. He will bring about peace, shalom. He will take what is broken and put it all back together in perfect harmony. While we focus on Advent during the weeks leading up to our celebration of Christ's birth, we are actually - always in a season of advent as we wait for the second and final coming of Jesus. It is unbelievably important - life-changing, if you will, to celebrate the first coming of Christ, who is Immanuel, God with us.
The Christ of Christmas
by James Merritt
1. Nobody can be so brutally honest like a child. One child wrote a letter to his aunt that went like this: Dear Aunt Sarah: Thank you for the Christmas present that you sent to me. The present you sent to me for Christmas was almost as good as the one I really wanted! 2. When God gave us his Christmas present in the form of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, without question He gave us a greater gift than we could have ever imagined or wanted. In these few verses we are going to study, John gives us the theology of Christmas. 3. Unlike the other gospel writers, God was not concerned so much about the where and the when of...
Christmas Blessings
by Daniel Rodgers
1. This evening I want to take just a few minutes to reflect on the goodness of God. Christmas, for the Christian, brings with it FAR MORE than lights and decorations. Christmas for us is a reminder of God's greatest blessing to mankind - the gift of His Son. 2. With the gift of salvation come many other wonderful blessings. Allow me to list just a few. I. THE TRUTH OF ABOUT CHRISTMAS A. Aren't you glad you are able to separate the truth of Christmas from the world's idea of what Christmas means? 1. If I never saw another Christmas tree or string of lights, Christmas would still be here. Christmas for...
Remembering Christmas
by Rex Yancey
''But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.'' Americans and citizens of the world treasure many things today. But in many cases, the incarnation is not one of the things they treasure. Do you treasure it? Will you ponder, not just in your mind, but in your heart, the reality and significance of the birth of Jesus? I am afraid that we spend a lot of our Christmas season celebrating, decorating, renovating, and dissipating, that we forget about the One we should be elevating! I would like to start a revolution in the Christian community. I am sure there will be opposition to my suggestion. However, here it goes. Since...
A Bethlehem Christmas
by Stan Coffey
Luke 2:4-7 ''So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.'' Introduction: ''O Little Town of Bethlehem,'' perhaps the best known American Christmas carol, was penned by Phillips Brooks when rector of a...
