We know what you really want for Christmas – and it’s not the gifts or the extra five pounds around the waist. What you really want is hope. It’s peace. Joy. Love. You don’t want presents so much as you want His presence. Those are the topics we’re going to talk about on Sunday mornings in December, and on Christmas Eve.
Don’t just come, but invite your friends, because this is what they really want too!
Our series text, the one that we’ll refer to every week, is Romans 5:1-8. This text puts hope, joy, peace and love into the context of what Jesus has done for us, and is doing in us through his Holy Spirit.
Here are the details:
Date: December 7, 2014
Title: What you really want for Christmas . . . Hope.
Text: Luke 2:22-38
Worship: Hope
Key Sentence: Christmas brings me a sure hope of consolation and redemption
Date: December 14, 2014
Title What you really want for Christmas . . . Peace
Text: Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 2:14; Philippians 4:6-9
Worship: Peace on Earth
Key Sentence: Peace is the fruit of my relationship with God
Date: December 21, 2014
Title: What you really want for Christmas . . . Joy
Text: Luke 1:14,44,46-47; Luke 2:10-11
Worship: Joy to the World
Key Sentence: Christmas gives me every reason for joy.
Date: December 24, 2014 (Christmas Eve)
Title: What you really want for Christmas . . . Presence
Text: Matthew 1:18-25, Exodus 29:45, Isaiah 7:14, Revelation 21:1-4
Worship: He came to us at Christmas
Key Sentence: God keeps the promise of his presence
Date: December 28, 2014
Title: What you really want for Christmas . . . Love
Text: 1 Chronicles 16:34-36; Psalm 103:8-13, 1 John 4:9-14
Worship: What Wondrous Love is This?
Key Sentence: Every day, in every way, I’m hearing God say “I Love You.”
