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New Resolution

posted by Joshua Ulmer 30Dec

As the new year approaches, many are getting their resolution list together. Common things that can be found on the list are:

Save money

Make more money

Exercise

Better grades

Get out of debt

Spend more time with family

Lose weight

Make the team

These are to name just a few that adults & high school students mention, but these seem to be the on the list outside the church and inside the church. What saddens me is that talks of New Year’s Resolution inside the church and outside the church don’t really look that different. What if this year it did look different?

What if those of us that are a part of the Church, those that are Christians, have a different New Year’s Resolution? How about we resolve to spend more time in the Word, more time in prayer, more time devoted to our relationship with God, and more time sharing about Jesus Christ the one that resolved the biggest problem of all, our distance from God.

The Christmas Story

posted by staff 23Dec

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. The Shepherds and the Angels And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ[a] the Lord.This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. Luke 2:1-16