FINDING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS: DESTINATION

Our Christmas Day combined service at 10 AM completes our Christmas sermon series Finding Home for Christmas with the sermon Destination.  We will use Jeremiah 33:6-15 as our scripture for Christmas Day.  Jesus is the Righteous Branch that has sprouted from the line of King David.  In Jeremiah’s vision to God’s people the coming of this Righteous Branch would bring healing, wholeness, and restoration to all believers.  This is not a distant reality, but it is a destination for our lives and spirits.  When we trust that God will fulfill his promises to us, then we find the hope and strength of living victoriously.  We hope you can join us as we celebrate that God has moved into our hearts through the Christ Child. We pray that your Christmas will be filled with celebration, joy, peace, and hope because the Living Word of God is alive in you! 

Jeremiah 33:6-15:

⁶ ‘Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security. ⁷ I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before. ⁸ I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. ⁹ Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.’ ¹⁰ “This is what the LORD says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more ¹¹ the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying, “Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, for the LORD is good; his love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before, ‘ says the LORD. ¹² “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘In this place, desolate and without people or animals– in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks. ¹³ In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,’ says the LORD. ¹⁴ “‘The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah. ¹⁵ “‘In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land. (NIV)