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December 23, 2017 - Church at Worship
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Sermon: "When God’s Call Ful lls Your Dreams" Mary Moments: God’s Unexpected Calls (part 4 of 4) by Randy Roberts with Erik & Traci Tsou
Pastoral Welcome: Shawna Campbell
Advent Candle-lighting: Perez Family: Jose, Flora, Sarah, Shaniah, Stacey and Rajagukguk Family: Henri, Donna, Carissa, Danielle, Zachary
Scripture Reading: Luke 2:36-39, TNIV read by Abigail Cooley Kalee Cautivar
Sermon Notes:
I decided this week to simply share a number of quotations about Christmas. I hope that in considering them—in lingering over them—that you might nd deeper meaning in this season of the year.
Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.
– Corrie Ten Boom
The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will, Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
– J. I. Packer
In nite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised Son.
– Charles Spurgeon
The idea that there’s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally. To me, as a poet, I am just in awe of that. It makes some sort of poetic sense. It’s the thing that makes me a believer, though it didn’t dawn on me for many years.
– Bono
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
– St. Augustine
Merry Christmas!
Randy Roberts Senior pastor
