Sing We Now of Christmas: O Little Town of Bethlehem

by Rev. Grant Armstrong
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Luke 2:1-7 
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SERMON NOTES:
I. Music can transport us to sacred moments and places.
II. God will use each note of our circumstances to compose a song of grace.
III. God will use the unexpected and ordinary to set the stage for the miraculous.

FOR DISCUSSION AND REFLECTION
- What is your favorite song with a location (like a city) in the title? Why?
- If you were to visit Bethlehem today, what would you want to see?
- Do you believe God prompted Augustus to take a census, or that God simply used the timing to place Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem? Does it matter?
- Where are you frustrated by inconveniences that God may be using to tell a larger story of grace?
- What will you do this week to focus on God's guiding hand through what seem like random circumstances?
- What is God saying to you through today's scripture?