Sermons on christmas eve service: showing 556-570 of 83,050

"the World Has Never Been The Same"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Dec 19, 2018

A meditation for Christmas Eve.

“The World has Never Been the Same” Luke 2:1-20 The story of Christmas is not a fairy-tale from long, long ago that takes place in a land far, far away. Included in the story are identifiable names and places. The birth of God into our world doesn’t happen outside of human history but through ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Denomination: United Methodist

Don't Forget Jesus This Christmas Series

Contributed by Robert Fa’atoia-Collins on Dec 23, 2010

We may get too busy and stress out that we forget the True Meaning of Christmas and that is JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD.

LUKE 2 In Luke 2, we read the story of when Mary and Joseph lost Jesus. You can say they have a parenting problem. They were given the Son of God to look after and they lost Him. It took them four days before they found Him in the Temple and what He was doing fascinate them. Did you know it is ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:41-52

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

When The Infinite Became An Infant Series

Contributed by Brian Bill on Apr 15, 2003

As the living Word, Jesus was with God in the beginning. He created all things and is the light of the world, and yet was not received warmly by those who should have welcomed Him with open arms. During this Christmas season, why don’t you receive the gre

When the Infinite Became an Infant I thought it would be a good idea for us to take a “Christmas Quiz” this morning to see how well we know the facts about the first Christmas. 1. When Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem, how did they get there? a. They walked b. ...read more

Scripture: John 1:1-13

Denomination: Baptist

The People Who Missed Christmas

Contributed by Greg Warren on Dec 13, 2003

Discusses the Biblical people who missed the miracle of the first Christmas and applies these principles to how people miss Christmas’ true maning today. Illustrations from Sermon Central contributers are incorporated.

Have you ever missed a great opportunity? The story is told of a small resort area along the east coast that was having an open town meeting concerning some financial problems they were facing. Among the two dozen or so people was one man no one seemed to know who was apparently visiting the ...read more

Scripture: John 1:10-12, Luke 2:1-7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Advent - Come All Ye Faithful

Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 15, 2008

Examines "Come All Ye Faithful" and Hebrews 1. Hymn speaks of much more than birth of Jesus, it calls us to worship Jesus because He is divine. YES, THE INTRO STORY IS ALL TRUE.

Christmas Eve 1990. I came this close to being physically thrown out of church. We were new to town and we heard that a certain church in town had a fantastic Christmas Eve service. So, we went with some friends, about ten of us total, to this church in downtown Princeton, New Jersey. The church ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 1:6-12

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Whose Birthday Is It Anyway?

Contributed by Bryan Fink on Dec 13, 2008

The purpose of this message is to help put Christmas back into proper perspective at the beginning of the season.

“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 ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-7

Denomination: Methodist

Should We Celebrate Christmas? Series

Contributed by Michael Stark on Dec 17, 2011

We are responsible to maintain our focus on Him Whom we call "Lord." At no time has this become more critical than during the Christmas Season.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and ...read more

Scripture: John 1:1-14

Denomination: Baptist

The Perfect Gift

Contributed by Dr. Phillip Paschal on Nov 27, 2001

The birth of Christ.

THE PERFECT GIFT MATT. 1:20 I. THE TEXT THIS TEXT POINTS TO THE PROVIDENTIAL, PROPHETIC PRE-VIEW OF THE BIRTH OF THE CHRIST CHILD. A CHILD WHO IN ONE SENSE WILL BE BORN YOUNGER THAN HIS MOTHER, AND IN ANOTHER SENSE, HE IS AS OLD AS TIME BECAUSE ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:20

Denomination: Baptist

The Absurdity Of It All

Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Dec 26, 2001

Why Christ came me seem absurd, but it is because God loves us.

First Baptist Church December 24, 2001 Christmas Eve When one of his speaking engagements ended, Landon Saunders would always take questions from the audience. On one night a young man began a dialogue with him that was spellbinding the audience. It was obvious this man was not being cynical, ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16

Denomination: Baptist

The Time Came

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Sep 9, 2008

When God comes, it seems inconvenient to us, but it is the right time. And when we cannot get Him to arrive when we want Him, that simply is not the right time.

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. The time came? Whose time? What kind of timing is this? A child deserves to be born in the surroundings of home, not in some strange place scores of miles away. A young woman wants to give birth to her child with her own ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7

Denomination: Baptist

A World Visited By The Word

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Nov 27, 2008

Using the format of "The Night Before Christmas", an imaginative account of Joseph’s feelings at the nativity.

A worshiper’s task on Christmas Eve is always the same, and it is no simple one. The task is, first, to let the beauty of Christmas happen. It doesn’t require explaining or expounding. It just needs to happen. But then the task becomes more complex, for we gather on Christmas Even around this ...read more

Scripture: John 1:14-18

Denomination: Baptist

Peace That Surpasses

Contributed by Richard White on Dec 9, 2008

Peace on Earth, Good will toward all men. This peace has been elusive. There is a peace that surpasses all understanding, it is the peace that Jesus gives.

Peace that Surpasses Phil. 4:2-9 What is Peace? Roget’s Thesaurus has these words after peace; calm, quiet, stillness, tranquility, silence, harmony and serenity. The word used here in Philippians 4 is defined as “one, peace, quietness, rest and set at one again. It is not ...read more

Scripture: Philippians 4:2-9

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Greatest Life Of All

Contributed by Ray Ellis on Dec 22, 2008

Ever since the announcement of the angel to the shepherds announced that Jesus was good news of great joy, we have been singing about the “Joy” that Jesus brings.

The Greatest Life of All -A Life of Joy- Luke 2:9-14 The angel of the Lord gave a reassuring word to the shepherds: “Don’t be afraid! I bring you good news of great joy for everyone! The Savior – yes, the Messiah, the Lord – has been born tonight in Bethlehem, the city of David.” Luke 2:10-11 ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:9-14

Denomination: Free Methodist

Light The Candle: Jesus Has Come

Contributed by Joseph Smith on Dec 24, 2008

For Christmas Eve, just prior to the lighting of the Christ Candle. When we take our light from the Light of the World, we will be changed and we will leave traces of that change behind us.

One of the world’s great natural wonders is Mammoth Cave, in my home state of Kentucky. In Mammoth Cave there are more than 300 miles of caverns, there are mineral deposits that supplied the American army during the War of 1812, there are fish that have no eyes and need no eyes since they live ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:68-79

Denomination: Baptist

The Eyes Of Eve In Eden

Contributed by Joel Pankow on Feb 15, 2002

how eve’s eyesight was changed through satan’s glasses

February 17, 2002 Genesis 2:7-9,15-17; 3:1-7 7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 ...read more

Denomination: Lutheran