ADVENT 2022
Christmas Eve 2022
December 24, 2022 • Scott Klaudt
Pastor Scott wraps up this Advent season by telling everybody what would really honor Jesus during Christmas…eat, chill, relax. So often Christians put a ton of pressure on trying to honor God during the Christmas season, but what we see that truly honors God is resting in His finished work.
Peace with the God Card
December 18, 2022
Scott wraps up this Advent season with one of the main messages and clearest messages that Jesus gave us: be a peacemaker. He never said to be a peacekeeper, because peacekeeping is just trying to make everybody happy. Peacemaking is something that takes an effort, something you engage in, and something that will cost you. Usually it costs you your own tribe because you can’t be a peacemaker unless you call your own side out too. But in the end, there are no sides because we’re all sinners and we’ve all been given peace from God.
Joy in Losing
December 11, 2022 • Scott Klaudt
In week three of Advent, we look at the shepherd's candle of joy, but Pastor Scott took a different route. Jesus gave us a clue to joy, but it’s not getting more stuff...it’s giving stuff up. It is not promoting ourselves, but denying ourselves. The kingdom of God is the opposite of the fleshly American way we’ve been taught, and the only way we find true joy is the Jesus way -- by picking up our cross daily.
Faith in the Stereo
December 4, 2022 • Scott Klaudt
Week Two of Advent is the Bethlehem candle of faith. What is faith? How does it work? What are we having faith in? Pastor Scott looked up every passage that talked about faith and almost every single one of them says that the only thing we are really having faith in, which will equal assurance, is our inheritance in the kingdom of God. We are to have faith that, no matter what, God will save us.
Hope in the Snake Den
November 27, 2022 • Scott Klaudt
We kick off Week One of Advent with the candle of hope. It has been scientifically proven that hope is a survival mechanism that we have, and without it, we die. The Christian hope is more than just having a good life here, it’s showing that the greatest enemy - death - has already been defeated, and we will be resurrected in our Lord. We were told by both Paul and Peter that we are to comfort one another with these words.