December 20, 2021 - Advent Devotion
This Week:
Christmas Eve - Drive Through Communion - Friday, December 24, 2021, 3:00pm-3:30pm
With the busy schedule (and busy parking lot) following worship on Friday, we have moved our Drive Through Communion to BEFORE worship for this service. Pull up in front of the building or in the pull-around loop and someone will be masked and out to serve you!
Festive Christmas Eve Worship - Friday, December 24, 2021, 4:00pm
Worship includes carols, a children’s message, communion, candlelight, reading of “One Solitary Life”
Worship is available in person or on Facebook for Lord of Life LIVE
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Past Service
The Fourth Sunday in Advent, Sunday, December 19, 2021
Join us on the rewatch for this past week’s service where we lit the last candle on the Advent Wreath in preparation for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray
O - tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
O - tidings of comfort and joy
“Rejoice always ... ”
These two words, this simple verse, this powerful witness Paul makes known for one and all, share what we can easily overlook - the tidings of comfort and joy that are ours thanks to the One who rules the world with truth and grace, thanks to the One who invites us, to rejoice!
One of the easiest places to see joy this time of year is in the eyes of children. Children's eyes light up. The children talk about Santa, they get their picture taken, they talk to family on the phone, see people stop by, see cards arrive, they see the toys in the stores and the gifts piling up under the tree. Children feel this joy, and the joy the children feel brings joy to others.
Children are filled with, and make known, an even deeper joy as they share their faith with us. They make known, true comfort and joy! Thanks to The Spirit in the spirit of children, we cannot miss their joy!
Thanks to The Spirit in the spirit of God’s children of all ages, the good news of the greatest joy shared by the shepherds long ago, is still being made known! You and your joy, make known for one and all, the comfort and joy made known to us in Christmas!
May each of us, now join the joy of the children, and be, children of God anew of every age! Others see us rejoicing, and their eyes and hearts are opened, too. Others witness the way we light up even in the midst of demands and details and stress and uncertainty, as we let nothing dismay us, and they want to know how this is possible. God's children are at rest, indeed we are at rest, we rejoice always, in The One who is our comfort and joy!
Let us pray: Today Lord I ask you to give me the spirit of a child again this Christmas; the spirit of your Child this Christmas. By your Holy Spirit, help me to light up so bright that others ask, 'how is this possible.' By your Holy Spirit, I know glad tidings of comfort and joy, and I can do no other than to make known the One who rules the world with truth and grace. I pray today in the power of these two simple powerful words: rejoice always! Amen.
