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  • Advent Candle Ceremony #1 Series

    Contributed by Tom Shepard on Nov 30, 2006
    based on 24 ratings
     | 30,277 views

    These are readings for the lighting of the Advent Candles.

    Advent Candle Ceremony #1 Introduction Each year we prepare for the coming of Christmas. We go about decorating our homes, setting up Christmas trees and buying presents. We look forward to spending time with family and friends. We also prepare in the Church as well. We have the hanging of ...read more

  • Advent Candle Ceremony #2 Series

    Contributed by Tom Shepard on Nov 30, 2006
    based on 26 ratings
     | 12,707 views

    This is an Advent Candle Ceremony which includes scriptures, readings and prayers.

    Advent Candle Ceremony #2 Introduction: Week One Advent is a time of joyful expectation of the coming of the Lord. It is a time of conversion and renewal, a time of watching and waiting, a time of new beginnings, a time to experience the power of God. It is above all else a time of hope, peace ...read more

  • Hope For The Season

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Dec 2, 2012
     | 6,313 views

    Only when Christ is the OBJECT of our hope can EXPECTATION be realized. Find your hope in Jesus this Christmas.

    Dakota Community Church December 2, 2012 Hope for the Season Isaiah 59:1-11 Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands ...read more

  • Advent Week 1 - 2012 Series

    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Dec 4, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,508 views

    How important is celebrating the birthday of Christ? How important was the birth of Christ? How does the differentiation between these two concepts help us sort out the meaningful from the frivolous aspects of December 25?

    Galatians 4:4-5 (NASB) “But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” Today is the first Sunday of Advent What is Advent? ...read more

  • A "Sign"? : A New View Of The Nativity Scene

    Contributed by Bryan Douglas on Dec 8, 2012
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,857 views

    God has revealed in the Christmas story a powerful "sign" of the swaddling clothes and manger which has great spiritual significance, but it has been concealed by our cultural depictions of the Nativity Scene.

    A “Sign”? : A New View of the Nativity Scene Luke 2: 1-19 As we read the Christmas story in Luke 2: 1-19, it is such a familiar passage that it is easy to just blow through it ...read more

  • It's A Wonderful Life Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Dec 9, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,390 views

    What would the world be like if there was no Christmas and No Jesus? This message was inspired by John Ortberg's message "Who is this Man?"

    It’s a Wonderful Life (Begin with Clip from “It’s a Wonderful Life” scene where George meets Clarence and wishes he had never been born” It’s a Wonderful Life has consistently been ranked in the top 100 movies of all times, it has been called the number one ...read more

  • Advent Week 2 - 2012 Series

    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Dec 11, 2012
     | 6,350 views

    Advent is about God and God alone initiating His grand plan of salvation. Don't get sidetracked by and over emphasize the secondary characters in the narrative.

    Today is the second Sunday of Advent The whole reason for the Advent was to initiate the new covenant and to save the lost. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [This next segment is a promo for an upcoming Christmas Dinner Drama] But before we ...read more

  • The Deeper Significance Of The Unique Bethlehem Shepherds

    Contributed by Bryan Douglas on Dec 15, 2012
    based on 3 ratings
     | 11,115 views

    The Bethlehem shepherds left their lambs being born in the fields to attend the birth of The Lamb of God who is also the Good and Great Shepherd. But, they were also unique as they pastored the Temple flocks of lambs who would die at the same place, time

    The Deeper Significance of the Unique Bethlehem Shepherds "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night." (Luke 2:8) Shepherds are correctly included in every Nativity scene and church Christmas pageant … usually ...read more

  • Candlelight Devotional - The Light Of The World

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Dec 25, 2012
    based on 4 ratings
     | 24,281 views

    A brief Christmas Eve Candlelight Devotional. At the end I also have our program for our special Candlelight service.

    The Light of the World Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Devotional December 24, 2012 INTRODUCTION The October 2001 edition of National Geographic had an article on the “Power of Light” with this quotation: Light reveals the world to us. Body and soul crave it. Light sets our ...read more

  • "The Gift Of Life"

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Dec 2, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,606 views

    This message is about what God desires to give us for Christmas and that is life.

    The Gift of Life Psalm 85 1. God restore us so we might have Life A. The People in today’s reading remember a better past and so they remind God we want our old life back. B. Look at verses 1-3 1You showed favor to your land, O LORD; you restored . 2You forgave the iniquity of your people ...read more

  • The Man Who Thought His Prayer Was Not Answered Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Dec 3, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 9,999 views

    Zechariah prayed, and thought his prayer was not answered. God, however, not only heard his prayer, but answered in a way he could never have imagined.

    “In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. But they ...read more

  • Four Words That Could Change Your Christmas: Give Series

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Dec 11, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,159 views

    Christmas will be different when our giving is different; relational, personal, and sacrificial.

    ADVENT CONSPIRACY FOUR WORDS THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR CHRISTMAS: GIVE JOHN 1:1-3, 14 AND MATTHEW 2:1-11 Big Idea: Christmas will be different when our giving is different; relational, personal, and sacrificial. Supporting Scripture: Deuteronomy 15:11; Psalm 82:3-4; Psalm 112:4-5; Isaiah 58:1-11; ...read more

  • Joy - Advent 3, 2011 Series

    Contributed by Dan Cormie on Dec 11, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,836 views

    Nobody sets out with the goal of becoming jaded and bitter. There is no child thinking, “I hope I live long enough to be a really cranky nasty old man.”

    Dakota Community Church December 11, 2011 Joy Well the third candle the “joy” candle is lit reminding us of the joy that Christ’s coming brought to the world. From one end to the other the season rings with joy but as you fight your way through the parking lot at St. Vital mall searching in vain ...read more

  • The Face Of Praise Series

    Contributed by Ralph Juthman on Dec 17, 2011
     | 5,759 views

    This is number 4 in the four part series. God is worthy of our praise. Christmas is the prime time for us to stop and give thanks, praise and worship to God for the most precious of gifts, His Son.

    THE FACES OF CHRISTMAS 4 LUKE 1:57-80 ‘PRAISE’ INTRODUCTION For the next three minutes, I would like you to turn to two people, and share what was the most special present you ever received at Christmas? How did you feel when you received it? What were you feelings toward the person ...read more

  • A Refection Of The Cradle Series

    Contributed by Denn Guptill on Dec 25, 2011
     | 4,790 views

    This is our Christmas Eve service looking at the borrowed Cradle and Borrowed grave

    Transitions, in all of our lives there are transitions. Times when our lives change and the lives of those around us change. You know what I’m talking about because there are events that you are thinking about even as I speak. Births, deaths, graduations, weddings, baptisms. ...read more