With Thanksgiving and Christmas only a handful of weeks apart, our culture is saturated with messages of gratitude for what we’ve received and generosity with what we have. To embrace this message means you must be open-handed though. But this is not just cultural, this is biblical. Ephesians tells us that in Christ we are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. Are our hands open to these blessings? And Jesus tells us the Father loves a joyful giver who gives freely as there is need. It really is a season of being open-handed.
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“Time is money”, right? As important as money is in life, what we do with our time is arguably more valuable. With this in mind, it’s not hard to see how God sees time. Is God bound by time? Theologicaly we say no. However, when we look at the birth of Jesus, how time is used makes all the difference. And it does for us as well. In this message, we’ll learn how the follower of Jesus uses their time.