December 24, 2023 • Rev. Claude McRoberts • Luke 2:8–11
I. Obstacles to Peace
II. Antidotes to the Barriers
III. The Reaction of the Recipients: Fear
IV. Too Simple to Fear
It Pleased the Father - Why Jesus Was Born: To Save Me from Myself
December 17, 2023 • Rev. Claude McRoberts • Isaiah 53:10, Galatians 4:4–7
I. The Principle
The pleasure of God is wrapped up in His love; therefore, we get a glimpse of God's pleasure in His demonstration of love in the sending of His Son and subsequent offering of Him up for our salvation.
II. The Plan
Because of love for you (known only to a God as to WHY He would love YOU), He sent His Son, born in a manger wrapped in flesh to this end; that 33 years later He would die an unthinkable, cruel, harsh death to give YOU life... You and a number no one can count from every tribe, nation, tongue, and people group!
III. The Peace
The Beauty in believing in the sovereignty of God is not that the doctrine magically makes sense out of all life; rather the beauty lies in the fact that God's sovereignty gives me peace when life doesn't make sense.
Life From the Spirit
December 10, 2023 • Rev. John Pearson • Matthew 1:18–25