Sermons By Date - December 2010

What Really Matters

12/26/2010

The same thing seems to happen each Christmas season – we receive so many gifts and, initially, we’re elated.  The sweaters are so soft, the games so exciting, and the tools so manly. Then, January comes & goes and most of those gifts are forgotten. Our affections and wants turn toward other things we don’t have yet.

Jesus the Refugee

12/19/2010

Refugees and immigrants have characterized every generation.  Some move for opportunity but most move out of necessity—famine; war; threat; unemployment.  Most would rather stay home.  Most immigrants are poor and most say they are going to go home as soon as possible.

Jesus the Child

12/12/2010

We easily visualize Jesus the baby and Jesus the man.  But we don’t usually think of Jesus taking his first steps, learning his first words, playing outside until bedtime or hanging out with his teenage friends.

Jesus the Baby

12/05/2010

There was the miracle of virgin conception—unexplained and supernatural.  Then there were all the usual human experiences with nine prenatal months of growing fingers and toes, heart and lungs, eyes and ears, brain and face.  Other than the stable delivery room there was nothing unusual about this baby’s birth.  You see it wasn’t the obstetrics that made Christmas special; it was the person.