Is there a better way to keep Christmas than the one we have grown used to? This message takes us back to the wilderness, where God tells Israel to build a tent so that He can dwell among His people (Exodus 40), and shows how that scene returns in the account of Jesus’s birth and in the words about the Word made flesh (Matthew 2; John 1). Not even Rachel’s weeping, nor the darkness we carry, cancels the promise of God present among us. Listen, if you want this Christmas to mean something more.
Meeting God Face to Face
The Promised One
When we live in the present, it’s sometimes easy to forget about eternity and live as if what is here and now were all we can expect. However, the Apostle Paul, in his First Letter to the Thessalonians, though writing about very everyday matters, constantly reminds his readers of eternity, and every chapter of this letter ends with a reference to the second coming of Jesus. He does this because, even though we live in the present and struggle with the here and now, we can learn to view our lives, our daily struggles, and our everyday choices from the perspective of eternity-and that changes everything.
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