Teaching by Tag: Christmas
A Child Is Born
The great mystery of the gospel is that the Son of God became the Son of man so that the sons of man could become sons of God.
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Why He Was Born
Why was Jesus born? He came to seek and save the lost, He came to testify of the truth, and He came to set us free.
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Sanitizing Christmas
Sometimes our understanding of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth become “sanitized” when we don’t realize how difficult those events were. The Messiah brought “peace on earth,” but maybe not the way you think.
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Saving Christmas, Part 3
John 1:5 says that “the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” Jesus is that light, and our hope is found in Him.
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The Holy Spirit leads, guides, and reveals truth to those who are devout. Waiting is the soil in which God grows us spiritually.
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Context sets the stage for life. There is a context to history. There is a context to your salvation. There is a context to Christmas.
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From Ancient Days, Part 4
God used many people to save Christmas, so that Christmas could save many people.
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Christ is the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecies that a virgin would give birth and that the Prince of Peace would come.
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Christ is the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that all the world would be blessed through his seed.
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Why Jesus Came
We celebrate Christmas because Jesus came into the world to testify of the truth, and to seek and save those who are lost.
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An Old Man’s First Christmas
Familiarity dilutes the significance of past events. And the birth of Jesus Christ has eternal significance.
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Saving Christmas
The story of Christmas started centuries before a virgin gave birth in a stable in Bethlehem.
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The Word Was Made Flesh
Pastor Mike Minter uses the Christmas hymn “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” to talk about the ever-present wonder of Christmas.
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Born Free
In his Christmas message, Pastor Minter examines the roles of Joseph, Mary, and Elizabeth as they prepared for the coming of the Christ-child.
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Gift Exchange
Whenever we are given a gift, we have three options of what we can do with it: hide it, use it, or exchange it. Jason Goetz looks at some of the worst “gift exchanges” in biblical history and shares how encouragement can help us not exchange the great gift we have in Christ for something of infinitely less value.
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