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“Your guilt has been taken away, and your sin has been forgiven.”…“Here I am. Send me!”
Isaiah 6:7b, 8c [GW
Join us for a special 10th Anniversary worship celebration, as guest preacher, The Rev. Matt Popovits, shares with us how “God humbles, sanctifies, instructs, and joins those that he sends.”
You won’t want to miss it!
You were washed clean, you were made holy to God, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:11b [CEB]
Baptism.
Through it God grants and sustains faith, forgives sins, grant life and salvation! He makes us His adopted children and gives the gift of the Holy Spirit! through it the Old Adam is drowned and the New Man brought forth! In Baptism we are joined to Jesus and His suffering, death, and resurrection!
And all of this through His free grace and mercy in Jesus!
WOW!
Today we look at part 2 of 2 of our mini-series on Baptism and answer those and other important questions on this important topic.
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You were washed clean, you were made holy to God, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:11b [CEB]
Baptism. It’s important, but why? What is it? Why did God give us this gift and command? What are it’s benefits?
Today we look at part 1 of our mini-series on Baptism and answer those and other important questions on this important topic.
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The prophecy of this Child’s birth is fulfilled.
The shepherds are gone. Perhaps life is returning to some kind of normalcy.
But it’s still not “normal.”
How can it be?
Jesus is not a “normal” child. This is not a “normal” family. Perhaps this “new normal” is all there is to look forward to.
Or is it?
What do we do in the “letdown” after Christmas? Is it a disappointment? Mundane? “Normal?”
How can it be?
The fact that Jesus came changed everything – for the better! There is a “new normal” but it is to be celebrated – every day!
Although also a Christmas service and celebration (with Christmas music and songs), this one is focused on heeding the call by the shepherds to also go and see this miracle – and to worship Him!
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CHRISTMAS EVE!
The culmination from the angel prophesying to Mary through all her struggles and concerns, to the birth of the promised One!
It now isn’t just Mary’s Advent, but ours, too!
Jesus’ birth is the culmination for our lives, too – difficulties and all!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.
Luke 2:15b
As if there wasn’t enough going on, now, as a community-ostracized, pregnant young woman, we have to make a prolonged trip with thousands of others to another city with what seems minimal support!
If God is going to ask so much of someone, why would He allow such struggles?
We may wonder that, too.
But God doesn’t promise we won’t have struggles. In fact, the opposite is true.
Jesus says that in this life we are guaranteed to have struggles, but to take heart, because He has overcome them and is with us through them!
That’s enough!
Always.
Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.
Luke 2:15b
I often wonder about the order of things here.
Did Mary go to visit Elizabeth before telling Joseph or after?
Did she do it to hide? Build up her courage to face Joseph and the community?
In any event, it would be welcome to get out of her town and visit someone who would encourage and help her through this difficult time.
Somewhere she could go to process and get a break from everything happening.
Sometimes we all need that!
But really, Jesus is the One through whom we find our true rest – for all time!
Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.
Luke 2:15b
The angel is gone. Perhaps Mary is starting to show. And Joseph has to be told.
Being found pregnant out before a wedding was not good!
What would this mean for her marriage; for the raising of this prophesied Son; for her family; for her standing in the community? Indeed, what would it mean for her literal life?
Scary!
But what God promises, He see through.
It was true with Mary. It is true with us.
Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.
Luke 2:15b
Mary is amazing!
An incredible, special women who “found favor with God” and submitted to His will for her and, through her, for all!
Yet one has to wonder what was in her mind. She must have had questions. Perhaps a chief one being, “who am I”? Why was I the one who found favor in God’s eyes?
In this series for Advent and Christmas we will look at “Mary’s Advent” for the time leading up to, including, and just following Jesus’ birth, as well as our own Advent in the process.
[Jesus] is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17
There are many times we may ask ourselves, “why do bad people seem to prosper and followers of Jesus suffer?”
To be sure, it’s a wrong question to ask, but it can be frustrating just the same.
Yet what we may feel as unjust, God will make right in His time.
Jesus has made all things right through the cross and His eternal judgement will be right, just, and eternal.
We need not worry about how things are now. We need only have patience through faith for eternity.
I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
Luke 21:15
The last days will be difficult ones – and we are in them now.
But even when persecuted, imprisoned, betrayed, and brought to account, we need not fear. Jesus said that He will give us “a mouth of wisdom” that will not be able to be contradicted.
Fear not! He is with us and these trials are temporary!
God bless your day!
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