I can't wait until Sunday to worship together with you all! This Sunday we break out the Christmas carols! As we count down to the big day, it's so easy to start getting caught up in the craziness of the season, and it seems like every year it gets more and more intense.
God's provided a lot of subbing work for me over at Village Christian this past week, and you can just see the kids checking out for Christmas vacation as they get closer and closer to their last day of class. Jess has had to constantly fight to keep her classes focused and under control, and she's hanging on by a thread, so keep her in your prayers!
Hopefully as we sing songs that celebrate Christ's birth, we'll be able to center ourselves again on the reality of Christmas: The birth of the little baby that would grow up to live a perfect sinless life, and who would sacrificially die on a cross for the sins of mankind.
We'll start with "Angels We Have Heard On High" as a call to worship. There's a few announcements, including final details about our Christmas care package we're sending to our missionaries, the Lovingfosses. This Sunday is the last day, so if you've got something to include, don't forget to bring it THIS SUNDAY!
We'll continue worshiping in song as we sing "The First Noel" and "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear." Right before the sermon, we'll have a more responsive song: "You Alone" that will give us the chance to savor the goodness and graciousness of God in giving us his son. It will also help to remind and solidify the idea we explored last Sunday of pursuing God alone, and not a godliness or righteousness of works.
Pastor Todd will preach to us from 1 Timothy 4:6-10, which explains the proper place of godliness in our lives. We learn and build our convictions in doctrine, and that doctrine plays out into the way that we live.
We'll respond in song with "Give Us Clean Hands" which is a petition to God to let us be a people that seek God's face above all else. And we'll finish with another carol "Angels From The Realms Of Glory" so we can end the morning with thoughts of the Savior given for our sins!
See you Sunday!
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