SERMONS FOR CHRISTMAS EVE
Our sermon ideas for Christmas Eve will help you preach a powerful message on Christmas Eve, to celebrate the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Prepare your messages for the holiday season with Christmas Eve sermon outlines or an entire sermon series about the birth of Jesus. Also, study messages related to Mary and Joseph, the Wisemen, the shepherds, and more to help you preach a dynamic Christmas Eve sermon. These sermons were hand picked to help you prepare one or many sermons on this topic.
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A Christmas Eve Message of Peace
by Dave Gustavsen
Good evening. And a very Merry Christmas to everyone. As we gather tonight, we gather as honest people. And the honest truth is: there is a lot of darkness in our world. But we also gather as a hopeful people. And our hope is rooted in a promise that God made many years ago. About 700 years before Jesus was born, Isaiah the prophet wrote this: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…(can you finish it?) Peace. Jesus Christ entered into this world to bring us peace. And I want to...
The Babe of Bethlehem
by Ernest Easley
Isn't this a wonderful time of year? Don't you enjoy the Christmas season? I sure do. One of the good things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present! All you have to do to have your Christmas spirit challenged is to spend time shopping in a Mall. A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing! But I enjoy about the Christmas season. I enjoy Christmas memories, Christmas music, Christmas parties, Christmas lights, Christmas clothes, Christmas trees, Christmas shopping, Christmas gifts, Christmas dinner.. Christmas smells, I like it all! But what I love most about Christmas...
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...
Silent Night, How Christmas Comes
by Joe Alain
I've always been amazed at the cast of characters surrounding the Christmas story. A young woman, a teenager named Mary; Joseph, a carpenter; Zacharias and Elizabeth, two people faithful to God during the many years of prophetic silence; wise men, foreigners from the pagan lands of the East; and then there were the shepherds, the humble, the lowly, the working class, living out in the fields. Aside from the heavenly and glorious angels most everyone associated with Christ' coming were quite earthly and ordinary folks. No one saw in Mary the one who would bear the Messiah- the Christ! Certainly no one in...
Christmas Eve Homily - 2
by Vermon Pierre
Tonight, starting with prophecies from Old Testament prophets and ending with writings from early founders of church, we heard story of Jesus, the Son of God who come to earth, born as human being. Lots of things in what read worth thinking about. But for tonight, for just short time want focus in on what apostle John says about this in chapter 1 of the Gospel of John. Pull out some thoughts from v.4 and then v.14 to help remind us the impact of Jesus coming into our world. Start with v.4. Listen to this description of Jesus coming into world. John describes as light coming into darkness. “The light shines in the darkness, and...
The Lord Has Come: The Innkeeper's Story
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: This is the story of Christmas missed. This is the Innkeeper’s account of the birth of Jesus. Of course, we know nothing about the innkeeper. We don’t even know if there was one. All we know is that when Joseph and Mary arrived in Bethlehem after the long one hundred-mile mountainous journey south from Nazareth to Judea, the inn was full. In a brief little cryptic statement, Luke simply tells us that Jesus was laid in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn. I wonder how that innkeeper might have described that night? I wonder what his explanation might have been? We will never know for sure. But we...
God in a Manger
by Daniel Rodgers
Soren Kierkegaard, the great Danish theologian of another century, tells a story of a prince who wanted to find a maiden suitable to be his queen. One day while running an errand in the local village for his father, he passed through a poor section. As he glanced out the windows of the carriage his eyes fell upon a beautiful peasant maiden. During the ensuing days he often passed by the young lady and soon fell in love. But he had a problem. How would he seek her hand? He could order her to marry him. But even a prince wants his bride to marry him freely and voluntarily and not through coercion. He could put on his most...
Born of Mary (1 of 4)
by Jonathan McLeod
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, ''Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!'' But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, ''Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the...
The First Christmas
by Donald Cantrell
This sermon gives us much to ponder as we think about that first Christmas season and the burden, the busyness that Joseph and Mary experienced. Ultimately we realize that it was all about that little ''Baby of Bethlehem.'' I will preach this sermon on Christmas Eve morning and show people that the first Christmas is much like our Christmas's. We are often burdened down, we are ultra busy and if we are not careful we lose our focus and forget that Christmas is about that little ''Baby of Bethlehem.'' The beauty of Christmas is all of the traditions that each family adheres to in celebrating the holiday. In our...
If There Were No Christmas
by Stan Coffey
I want to welcome all of our guests today. It's so good to have our guests with us. I want everyone, if you will, to take your outline. You'll find it in your bulletin. We'll look at the message for today. If you're a guest you'll also find, on the right hand side of your bulletin, a guest registration form. I'd like for you guests to take a moment and fill that out. I'd like to send you a copy of today's message on cassette tape just for visiting the service today, as a way of saying thank you, and you're appreciated and very special to us here at San Jacinto Baptist Church. So if you'll fill that out, at the end of the service we'll receive those in the...
Joy to the World
by James Merritt
1. If you were to ask anyone on the street what is the most joyful time of the year? Without any question, it would be practically unanimous that Christmas is the most joyful time of the year. One of the carols you will hear everywhere you go is one entitled, ''It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.'' 2. In 1719 Isaac Watts wrote a hymn that came to be entitled, ''Joy to the World.'' Now the interesting thing about this song is, the only stanza that is related to Christmas and the birth of Jesus, is the first one that announces ''the Lord is come.'' There is no mention of Mary and Joseph, the angels, the Shepherds, the manger, or...
Christmas is for Purity- Part 2 (2 of 2)
by Scott Maze
It just seems the holidays are meant for laziness. The week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day is meant for sleeping in and resting. Yet, I want to challenge you message during this ''week of rest'' - The reality of Christmas is that God's grace does not produce Christians who are cavalier about sin. My message in three words is simple: Don't drift downstream. Christmas is here to stamp out sin. Jesus' intention is to extinguish sin. The Apostle Paul's intention is to extinguish sin. The reason God designed Christmas was to extinguish sin. So I say again: Don't drift downstream in your fight against sin. Instead...
The Christmas Star
by Miles Seaborn
Intro. Mr. Harry Lauder told of a man and his small son who were walking slowly down the streets of a large American city one Christmas time. It was wartime, and the child was delighted to see many service stars hanging in the windows of homes. Each star proudly proclaiming the fact that the son was in the service of his country. He clapped his hands excitedly as he approached each new home and each new star, and he was impressed by those homes with more than one star in the window. Presently they came to a wide gap between the houses and through the black velvet of the Christmas sky there was...
Christmas Angels
by Richard Laue
Today I would like us to focus on these angels, who appeared to the shepherds at the time of the birth of our Lord. First, a solitary angel appeared to them, and they were afraid. The angel encouraged them not to be afraid, because he assured them that he was bringing a message of great joy for all people. He then announced to them the birth of the Saviour, and where He would be born, and where they could find Him. Suddenly there appeared a multitude of the Heavenly Host (angels) praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men." Then the angels...
So This Is Christmas
by Kenton Beshore
Reverend: All right. If you pull out your outlines, we’re in a series titled One. One book, one life, one story that’s going to take us all the way from Christmas to Easter, the book of Matthew. And this season of Christmas is getting exciting, isn’t it? You’ve got to love this season. Kids, the wonder of all of the decorations, gifts are appearing under the tree. That gets to be more and more exciting for kids. You have family coming back; college students are back from school which is exciting; families flying in from different parts and the excitement of being together with family because you go, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, is that beautiful song...
The Miracles of Christmas (1 of 4)
by Jeff Schreve
In 1951, Meredith Wilson, the composer, the same guy that wrote ''The Music Man,'' composed a song for Christmas. It was entitled, ''It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.'' It's been sung by Bing Crosby and many, many others. It's a fun song. And I like when that song starts to be sung because it reminds us that Christmas is upon us. And as you look around, you can see that Christmas is upon us. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at First Baptist Church in Texarkana. And if you go around to the stores, you know, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the stores in about September, you know, because that's the way...
The Christmas Story
by David Cawston
"Christmas Story, Alison's Message" "If I have to pick up one more scrap of wrapping paper or ribbon, I'm going to scream!" I had delegated much of the preparations for Christmas to my three children. They had trimmed the tree and wrapped gifts, but I still had to pick up after them. Overworked as I was, the excitement and joy of Christmas seemed to be eluding me. Surveying the mess they'd made, I said angrily, No more wrapping!" But a few minutes later, Alison, my nine-year-old, scooted through the kitchen, arms full of wrapping paper, ribbons, scissors and tape."I told you we've done enough wrapping already,"...
Amber Alert - Jesus Is Missing!!!
by Donald Cantrell
An amber alert (also AMBER alert) or a child abduction emergency alert (SAME code: CAE) is a message distributed by a child abduction alert system to ask the public for help in finding abducted children. It originated in the United States in 1996. AMBER is a backronym for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. The alert was named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas, in 1996. The decision to declare an AMBER Alert is made by each police organization (in many cases, the state police or highway patrol) that investigates each of the abductions. Public info...
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...
A Christmas Meditation
by Jesse Hendley
In Galatians 4:9, friends, we find this statement: ''Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.'' The Apostle goes on to say, ''I am afraid lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.'' is rebuking the Galatians for their observance of certain religious feast days. Well, Christmas time is a feast-day and Easter time is a feast-day. There are other religious days, such as Good Friday. What about these days? Paul here felt that he had bestowed labor on them in vain, because there was a lot of religious activity about THE DAYS, the festival part, and they missed entirely the true spirit of them. A Letter - I shall never forget a...
