How good is the Good News? God’s gift for us that we celebrate every December is the greatest gift of all time. Some gifts need to be nurtured, some gifts need to be shared, and some gifts keep on giving. In this year-end message, we explore Christ’s coming, a gift to change the world and our lives.
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December 26, 2021 • Dirk Duhlstine
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The Baby Who Threatens the World
December 19, 2021 • Graeme Sellers
The world would have no problem with Jesus if he’d just stay in the manger. That little baby poses no threat unless he gets out, gets loose, grows up, and becomes all he's destined to be. If he is who he says he is, from the very being of God with all attendant authority, he becomes a threat to every established human institution: political, economic, educational, religious. All of them are in jeopardy, for they require an allegiance only he legitimately commands.
Christmas Is What God Is Like
December 12, 2021 • Graeme Sellers
When we read the Christmas story, when we hear it, when we re-enact it in our worship, we are invited into an astonishing revelation of what God is really like. Christmas shows us what God is like—just as he trusted Joseph and Mary with his well-being, we can trust him with ours. Our lives, our fate, are safe with him. This is who God is—like his earthly parents, there’s nothing He won’t do, no part of Himself he won’t spend to care for us.
The Supernatural Origins of Christmas
December 5, 2021 • Graeme Sellers
Seen through the lens of its supernatural origins, with its many fantastical elements, it’s rather remarkable that we believe the Christmas story at all. Being a part of a community of faith, where the story is believed and revered and passed down from generation to generation, it’s easy to lose sight of how this narrative sounds to others. Our friends and neighbors hear it as religious mythology and shake their heads at our naïveté. Which prompts this question: why do we believe it? One answer is this: because of the supernatural work of Holy Spirit.