December 7, 2013 - Church at Worship

Sermon: "The Bridge, Part 2 - No Ordinary Baby" - Randy Roberts

Pastoral Welcome: Dustin Aho

Advent Candle: Lauer Family, Vu Family

Scripture Reading: Luke 2:8–14 - Christopher Reyes

Note: Child Dedications and Baptisms are on the extras section of the dvd

Sermon Notes:

Today I share two Advent quotations for your consideration, written by two eloquent writers.

Songs, good feelings, beautiful liturgies, nice presents, big dinners, and sweet words do not make Christmas. Christmas is saying yes to something beyond all emotions and feelings. Christmas is saying yes to a hope based on God’s initiative, which has nothing to do with what I think or feel. Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God’s work and not mine. – Henri Nouwen

He so loved us that, for our sake,
He was made man in time,
Although through him all times were made.
He was made man, who made man.
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

O come, O come Immanuel!

Randy Roberts
Senior Pastor