Christmas Eve 2018

One of the joys of this season is receiving Christmas cards in the mail. So often our mailboxes are filled with bills and junk mail. A Christmas card shows that someone thought enough about us to send us something good!

What we’re celebrating tonight is the fact that God thought enough about us to send us something that is so much better than any card or gift. He loves us so much that He sent His Son! He sent Jesus from a comfortable home in Heaven to live an uncomfortable life of sacrifice for our sake.

Sometimes we call someone to thank them for the card or the gift they sent. Tonight, we’re joining our voices together to sing our appreciation to God for sending Jesus. I am so glad we can share this time together.

Merry Christmas!  

1 John 4:9-11 (NLT) 9  God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10  This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 11  Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.  

As the Father sent His Son into the world as an expression of love, so Jesus sends us.