Sermon Archives

Christmas Songs
December 31, 2016

DOXOLOGY : Our Song

After looking at the songs of those in the Christmas story through Advent, we return to our regularly scheduled lives, still in progress. We have to ask: what is the song we sing? If Zechariah, Mary, Simeon and the angels sang in response to what they experienced, how do our experiences influence the way we […]

December 27, 2016

JOY: Christmas Day

December 19, 2016

LOVE: Mary’s song

The STORY | Luke 1:26-45 A young woman, a small town, an angelic visit, and a song. Mary was pledged to be married to a local carpenter in a forgotten rural town. Visited by an angel, she is told despite contrary circumstances she is “favored by God.” Furthermore, she will conceive a son who will […]

December 12, 2016

PEACE: Angel’s song

The STORY | Luke 2:1-13; 15-21 A Caesar decrees a census to determine how he can better take taxes from his people while God is preparing the greatest gift He can give His people, Himself. Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem, royal city of long past King David. The town filled with travelers has no […]

December 3, 2016

HOPE: Zechariah’s song

The STORY | Luke 1:5-26, 57-66 Christmas is often remembered by a miraculous birth, yet before the “silent night” when baby Jesus was born to a virgin outside an inn and laid in a manger there was another birth as unlikely as it was necessary. Before the arrival of the Savior King, God tells the […]

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