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Handling Disappointments At Christmas

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Dec 14, 2001

based on 54 ratings

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This sermon deals with the reality that Christmas brought disappointment to the lives of the participants in the first century and still does the same for us today.

Handling Disappointment At Christmas GNLCC 12/16/2001 Isaiah 7:13-14 Luke 1:26-38 Text Matt 1:18-25 Everything about the way the world celebrates Christmas gives the impression of a wonderful time of joy, fun, excitement, and happiness. The lights are beautiful, Santa is a jolly old ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25, Isaiah 7:13-14

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

The Best Christmas Tree Series

Contributed by Scotty Killingsworth on Dec 20, 2001

based on 21 ratings

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Using the anology of Christmas trees I hope my hearers will see how they can become the best trees as we start with the root found in Psa. 1 and then the fruit in Luke 6 and finally a platform for seekers to find Jesu in the story of Zacchaeus.

S122301 The best Christmas tree Psalm 1:1 Beginning: There is a story of the three trees growing side by side on a beautiful mountain. Each of the trees had great dreams of becoming very special. They wanted to be made into very beautiful and helpful things to bring glory to God. One tree ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 1:1, Job 14:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

The Perfect Gift For Christmas

Contributed by Mike Hays on Dec 20, 2001

based on 48 ratings

| 6,224 views

Many are searching for the perfect gift for their loved ones this Christmas, but God has a gift for us that will wear out or lose it power -- His mercies are new every morning.

The Perfect Gift For Christmas Luke 1:39-56 Time is running out. You only have a few days left to shop. I know you want to get the perfect gift for your loved ones this Christmas. As your pastor, I feel a special responsibility to help so I have searched the catalogs, Christmas flyers, and ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:39-56

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Unsung Hero Of Christmas

Contributed by James Petticrew on Dec 22, 2001

based on 94 ratings

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A sermon based on Matthew 1:18-25 challenging people to see Joseph’s significance and follow his example.

The Unsung Hero Of Christmas Introduction Over the last few years the code breakers who worked in secret at Bletchley Park in England deciphering the German’s secret messages have emerged as the great unsung heroes of the last war. It is impossible to calculate how many lives their work saved or ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25

Denomination: Holiness

Your Miracle At Christmas

Contributed by Bob Briggs on Dec 23, 2001

based on 26 ratings

| 6,112 views

What is it that causes some people to gain and some people to lose their hope for a miracle?

Christmas means different things to different people. For some its shopping, parties, celebrations, gifts wrapped under the tree. To others its Santa and his elf’s, stockings hung by the fireplace and the hope of snow. There are those who know and observe the reason for the season, Jesus Christ, ...read more

Scripture: John 1:11-45, Luke 2:1-3

Denomination: Pentecostal

Responses To The First Christmas

Contributed by Roy Hartzell on Dec 24, 2001

based on 14 ratings

| 5,922 views

This is a candle lignting service that will help you think about how you respond to Jesus at Christmas.

RESPONSES TO THE FIRST CHRISTMAS—Candle Lighting Service (Adapted from “A Savior Has Been Born” by Melvin Newland; sermoncentral.com; page 4 of his list of sermons; Dec. 1996) ( I preached: Dec. 23, 2001) Luke 2:1-14 In the last ten to twenty years and maybe even longer, we have seen a lot of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-14

Denomination: Baptist

"Christmas: Unfulfilled Expectations?" Series

Contributed by Bradley Boydston on Dec 24, 2001

based on 25 ratings

| 3,738 views

Christmas Eve parable/sermon about a Bethlehem seamstress.

“She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the village inn.” Luke 2:7 When it came to clothe Rachel was a way better than average weaver; and everyone in town knew it. She was the ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

Denomination: *other

A Strange Christmas Passage

Contributed by Steve Gladwell on Nov 19, 2002

based on 48 ratings

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An advent sermon on repentance

A Strange Christmas Passage I wasn’t sure whether I should come here today, after all, how could I come and preach at a Church in a denomination that seems to have got their lectionary passage wrong. Here we are in the second Sunday of advent, only two more Sundays before Christmas day, and the ...read more

Scripture: Mark 1:1-18

Denomination: Baptist

Are You Ready For Christmas?

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 6, 2001

based on 537 ratings

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When I ask, "Are you ready for Christmas?" I am asking about more than your activities. I am asking about your attitudes, because every once in a while I hear someone say, "I just cannot get into the Christmas spirit!"

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (REVISED: 2012) A. A question we’ll undoubtedly hear many times between now & Dec. 25th is this, "Are you ready for Christmas?" I suppose what is really being asked is, "Have you put up all your Christmas ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:46-55

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Christmas - Love Divine

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 13, 2001

based on 2,734 ratings

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I wonder what Christmas means to the little man in Zimbabwe, 80 years old, living in a hut, who knows nothing of shopping malls or Christmas trees? What does Christmas mean to him?

MELVIN NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (Slightly Revised: 2014) A. I wonder what Christmas means to a mother who has lost her husband, who must take care of 3 or 4 children, working every day, never quite getting everything done, never making ends meet? What does Christmas mean to ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:8-14, 1 Corinthians 1:26-28

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Christmas - Joy Or Despair?

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 13, 2001

based on 424 ratings

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Herod issues an order that all little boys two years old & younger in Bethlehem are to be murdered. In horror, we wonder how anyone could have reacted that way to a baby’s birth.

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK (Revised: 2014) A. Please listen as I read these familiar words found in Matthew 2:1-12. “After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem & asked, ‘Where is the one who has ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-18

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

3 Gifts For Christmas

Contributed by Howard Parnell on Oct 16, 2002

based on 260 ratings

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A Christian’s Christmas wish for the lost of the world is that they may receive these 3 gifts; but they are not gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

THREE GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS Luke 1:68 INTRO. The text is taken from the prophecy of Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist. [The story of John’s birth; the prophecy of the angel to Zacharias in the Temple (Luke 1:13-17).] So Zacharias knew that his new born son was to go before the Lord’s ...read more

Scripture: Luke 1:68

Denomination: Baptist

What's Important At Christmas

Contributed by John Foster on Jul 19, 2003

based on 6 ratings

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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

What If At Christmas Time

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Jan 26, 2001

based on 24 ratings

| 3,238 views

Sermon Deals With A Number Of What If The God Of Scripture Was Like Santa Claus.

What If Psalm 14:1-7 John 3:16-21 What if there was only one God at Christmas instead of two, would it change the way that we view Christmas. Would it change the way ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

But What's The Reason For Christmas

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on Jan 26, 2001

based on 19 ratings

| 5,142 views

This message goes into the real meaning behind Christmas, the problem of sin.

But What’s The Reason? Isaiah 53:1-6 Luke 1:26-38 Text John 3:16 Journey with me for a moment to the land of Karonia. Things were not going to well in the land because many people were dying of a crippling sickness of which there seemed to be no cure. Finally word came to the ...read more

Scripture: John 3:16-21

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

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