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Seven Lessons And Carols Series

Contributed by Ed Wood on Dec 17, 2003

This is a Christmas Eve Candelite Lord’s Supper Service using seven candles, and lessons with each one. You will also use individual candles for each participant.

Christmas Eve Candelite Lord’s Supper Service "SEVEN LESSONS AND CAROLS" INTRODUCTORY Prelude "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" Meditation: The circular candle ring ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 7:10-14

Denomination: Baptist

Christmas Joy

Contributed by T. Michael Crews on Dec 2, 2006

A brief Christmas devotion

CHRISTMAS J-O-Y I came across a collection of letters that children wrote to Santa Claus. Some of them were pretty good. One said, "Dear Santa, you did not bring me anything good last year. You did not bring me anything good the year before that. This is your last chance. Signed, Alfred." My ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 2:20, Galatians 2:20-25

Denomination: Baptist

Christmas Bread

Contributed by Pat Cook on May 16, 2005

The relevance of Bethlehem, with thoughts gleaned from other sources. Good for a Christmas communion service.

Matthew 2:1-12 – Christmas Bread A Jewish lady named Mrs. Rosenberg who many years ago was stranded late one night at a fashionable resort - one that did not admit Jews. The desk clerk looked down at his book and said, "Sorry, no room. The hotel is full." The Jewish lady said, "But your ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12

Denomination: Baptist

Reasons For Joy This Christmas

Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 25, 2001

There a 3 reasons for joy during Christmas that we can remember: Family, Government and Descent.

Reasons for joy this Christmas by Andrew Chan, Senior Pastor, PBC, Vancouver, BC We want joy, don’t we? Look around, are we not as humans reaching, looking, for it. The Vancouver Grizzlies and their fans are looking for the joy of victory. But alas... Why there is even a dish washing detergent ...read more

Scripture: John 1:1-14, Luke 2:8-12

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Alpha Male

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Dec 27, 2000

The Jesus of the Incarnation provides us with a more authentic leadership than "alpha males" in the wild or in politics, for in His differences He is Alpha and Omega.

Some of us learned a new term during the late and unlamented presidential campaign. Campaign observers, drawing on something learned from studies of animals in the wild, told us that one of the candidates was trying to learn to behave as an Alpha Male. An Alpha Male. What does that mean? In the ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 1:4-8

Denomination: Baptist

The Way In A Manger

Contributed by Barry Edmondson on Dec 13, 2007

A Christmas Salvation Message.

INTRODUCTION: A. GOD’S PURPOSE FOR MANKIND 1. God created man to have fellowship with Him 2. God created man to have relationship with Him 3. But, Adam and Eve failed in the garden. 4. It’s called the fall of man. B. SIN ENTERED INTO MANKIND 1. Sin sent man ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:11

Denomination: Pentecostal

Jesus Comes Into Our Mess

Contributed by Richard Schwedes on Jan 2, 2007

A Christmas Eve sermon reminding us that Jesus was born to deal with our messy lives

Isn’t the Christmas story a wonderful story It is a story that we hear every year. But it is more than just any old story It is something that happened in history that affects you today and affects your future When we open our eyes and ears and be honest with ourselves We realise that mess ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Denomination: Lutheran

What's Important At Christmas

Contributed by John Foster on Jul 19, 2003

A light look at business and the busyness of Christmas. Looking at the important things we do in the run up to Christmas put pointing out THE most important part is so obvious - Jesus Christ.

The most important thing about Christmas A few years ago I met a very clever and learned business consultant. He’d been an officer in the RAF and had moved on from there to work in the banking industry. He had eventually ended up as the Vice President of the Bank of America before ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-7, John 3:16

Denomination: Methodist

The Incarnation Of Christ, As The Gospels Told

Contributed by Ronald Harbaugh on Dec 17, 2007

This is a Christmas sermon in poetry, reflecting on the progression of thought in describing Christ’s birth as the Gospels were written. I wrote it to describe questions from a member.

Christmas Eve, December 25, 2007 - All Gospels Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray: Dear Heavenly Father, Creator of the universe and author of life on this planet we call earth, we gather in your presence this holy night to lift ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-7

Denomination: Lutheran

Being There At Christmas

Contributed by Todd Leupold on May 29, 2007

As we celebrate “God With Us”, will we commit to “be there” for Him?

“BEING THERE” AT CHRISTMAS INTRODUCTION: It seems the Big News this year is the purported “stealing of Christmas.” Consider: The South Orange/Maplewood School District just down the road has banned all Christmas songs with religious references – even instrumental arrangements that contain no ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 7:14

Denomination: Baptist

"Have You Got Room For Jesus This Christmas?"

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 28, 2006

This is a seeker sermon for Christmas time entittled "Have you got room for Jesus?"

Luke.2: 1-7. "Have you got room for Jesus this Christmas?" Millions of people upon this planet this Christmas will celebrate with big celebration’s, but they will completly miss the point of the celebrations. Could you imagine returning home to find your house decortated top to bottom with ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-7

Denomination: Baptist

The Christ Of Christmas

Contributed by Bob Briggs on Dec 18, 2005

What will you do with Jesus?

There has been much debate this year over Christmas. The politically correct, or should I say the politically incorrect has been working overtime in an attempt to remove Christ from Christmas, and any reminder of why we celebrate December 25th. Call it a happy holiday, or a winter break, but ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-4

Denomination: Pentecostal

Demythologise The Christmas Story And You're Left With What?

Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 23, 2006

What would you be left with if you took the miraculous out of the Christmas Story

Christmas Eve 2006 The miracle of the Incarnation It is hard to come up with something new to say about the Christmas story – that we all know so well. So I’d like to take a different tack this year and consider what would we be left with if we took the miraculous out of the Gospels. So what ...read more

Denomination: Anglican

Have You Opened Your Gifts?

Contributed by Carl Willis on Dec 22, 2006

Many know about the birth of Jesus, but they haven’t truly experienced the gift of God’s Son.

Have You Opened Your Gifts? John 3:16-17 John 3:16-17 (NLT) "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. [17] God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it. The Gift of ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-17

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Gifts Jesus Gives At Christmas

Contributed by Ray Ellis on Dec 23, 2003

The whole meaning of the Advent season prior to Christmas is this: a gift from God is on the way. The basic reason we offer Christmas gifts to each other is to honor and reflect the only perfect gift ever offered—the gift of God through a Bethlehem baby n

The Gifts Jesus Gives at Christmas Matthew 2:10-11 The whole meaning of the Advent season prior to Christmas is this: a gift from God is on the way. The basic reason we offer Christmas gifts to each other is to honor and reflect the only ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:10-11

Denomination: Free Methodist