Sunday, December 14 – Pastor Dereck Frymier

Celebrate the hope of Jesus with us during our Christmas Service on December 21 as we worship and reflect together.

On December 28, we will observe Sabbath Sunday, and there will be no service as we take intentional time for rest and renewal.

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Hope For The Holidays

Biblical hope – a confident expectation of what God has promised, based on the certainty that God is faithful 

(1 Peter 1:3-4) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you 

(Luke 1:26-28) In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Journey of Hope:

Expectation → Disappointment

(Luke 1:30) But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 

(Luke 1:31) You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.

Journey of Hope:

Expectation → Disappointment → Questioning

(Luke 1:31-34) 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” 34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

Journey of Hope:

Expectation → Disappointment → Questioning

→ Remember

(Luke 1:35-37) 35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.” 

(Lamentations 3:21-23) Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Journey of Hope:

Expectation → Disappointment → Questioning

→ Remember → Surrender

(Luke 1:38) “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. 

(Romans 15:13) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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