Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel which means “God with us.” Matthew 1.22-23/Isaiah 7:7.14 Back in Christmas, 1943, Bing Crosby recorded the song, “I’ll be home for Christmas” and it soared to the top of the charts and became an instant Christmas classic. That’s because Christmas, […]
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Philippians 4.4-5 Today is called “Gaudate” Sunday. If you’re not Catholic, or even if you are, you probably don’t know about it. It is a real insider Catholic thing, but definitely a […]
All of us want a great holiday this Christmas and oftentimes we go out and try to buy it or find it, or create it. We want peace on earth, joy in our families, love in our heart. We want it to be a great holiday filled with family and friends. We would like it […]
The hour has come for you to wake from your sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. Romans 13.11 When we’re not engaged with the Lord at a relational level, its like we’re asleep. Paul tells us to wake up, that this is the time to wake up. This is […]
We are celebrating Thanksgiving, so I am thinking of gratitude. I am grateful for the gift of faith, and for a Savior who who continues to save me from myself and my sin. I am grateful to God for all his goodness to me in this last year, one that has been filled with abundant grace […]
Every year on the weekend before Thanksgiving we celebrate what we call “Stewardship Weekend.” It’s the one weekend of the year when we talk about giving here to this local church community. We talk about money all the time, because Jesus did. But we only talk about giving to Nativity once a year. We don’t […]
This is an open memo to all of our volunteer ministry leaders and staff about a significant change in our program for 2011. In the past couple of years we have found ourselves struggling with the admittedly happy problem of church growth and the lack of space this creates on our campus. How do we […]
We are in the 4th week of our series all about priorities. Priorities always come down to time and money. How we use our time and how we use our money tell the story about what our priorities are. The past three weeks we’ve been talking about time, and giving some of our time to […]
At Jericho there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him Luke 19.2-4 We are in the third […]
Today we are in the second week of our current series all about getting life in order by setting priorities. Let me just be honest and up front and go ahead and admit that I’m good at this. Its not boasting to acknowledge you’re good at something, and I am definitely good at setting […]
