Advent - ALL !N With Pastor Jordan Easley

Waiting With Love

December 22, 2024 • Jordan Easley • Luke 2:11, John 3:16

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been walking through a series and a season of Advent. That word “Advent” means “to wait” or “to anticipate.” We’ve seen how Christmas was the culmination of Advent#1 — 2,000 years ago — God’s people were waiting for the Messiah, and they were waiting because God had promised them that He would send a Savior. Seven hundred years after the promise was made, the promise was fulfilled, and Jesus Christ was born. Jesus came. Christmas came, and the wait was finally over. Our Heavenly Father did the most loving thing He could ever do and sent His Son to earth to live, die, and resurrect so our eternities could be forever changed. And it’s that kind of love we’re going to look into deeper today.

Waiting With Peace

December 15, 2024 • Jordan Easley • Luke 2:10–14, Isaiah 9:6

Are you waiting for God to come through for you right now? Are you waiting for God to prove Himself faithful? Are you waiting for God to keep His word? If you answered yes to any of those questions, I want to remind you that you’re waiting on a God that always comes through. He’s a God who always keeps His promises. He’s never broken a single promise. When God told His people that a baby was coming, peace was coming, His Son, the Messiah was coming…guess what? He came! The fulfillment of that promise may not have happened when the children of Israel wanted it to happen, but ultimately, God kept His promise and that promise was fulfilled in His perfect timing. The same is going to be true for us as we wait on the Lord. And in the meantime, as we wait, He gives us peace that surpasses all understanding.

Waiting With Joy

December 8, 2024 • Jordan Easley • Luke 2:15–20, Luke 2:10

If your joy comes from a thing, you’ll always need more of that thing to maintain your joy. But that’s not the way joy was designed to work. God never said that our joy should be contingent on our circumstances. He said our joy comes from our Savior. And that doesn’t mean things are always going to go our way. It doesn’t mean we won’t experience trials and difficulties along the way. But the truth is that you can be sad on the surface while maintaining joy in your spirit because, ultimately, our joy doesn’t come from our circumstances. It comes from Jesus. So, if you’re reading this today and you’d say, “When times are good, I am good. When times are bad, I am bad,” you’re missing something. Joy comes from the Lord, and we see that joy delivered by God and portrayed in the Christmas story in Luke chapter 2.

Waiting With Hope

December 1, 2024 • Jordan Easley • Isaiah 7:14

Have you ever wondered how people were saved before Jesus came to the earth? After all, we’ve grown up hearing the Gospel, which is based on the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. So if that’s the case, how were people saved before those things happened? The answer is that people have always been saved by grace through faith. There was a moment in time when people had faith prior to having a long, extensive pattern. Those who had a BC faith didn’t have the evidence that we have and the resources we have. They didn’t have hundreds of years of archeological digs, uncovering evidence that supported what the Bible says. All they had was the voice of God, and yet many people believed God’s voice. In doing so, they showed us what real faith looks like as they waited for Jesus. So how can we wait with this same kind of faith? That’s exactly what we’re going to look at today.