Today, we finish the Sermon on the Mount. This week is simply the wrap up, testifying to the authority of Christ’s teachings. Here’s the passage: Matthew 7:28-29. Congratulations! Join me next year for more memorization. Did you make it? Let me know in the comments.
Our Tradition: A Birthday Cake For Jesus
This is part of the series The Gifts Of The Holidays: Celebrating Thanksgiving And Christmas. Read more from the series! Since Christmas is the day we celebrate Jesus’ birth, it’s only appropriate that we celebrate with a cake. Every year, we bake a birthday cake for Jesus. Sometimes it’s a simple sheet cake with frosting…
Our Tradition: Reading The Birth Narrative
This is part of the series The Gifts Of The Holidays: Celebrating Thanksgiving And Christmas. Read more from the series! One of our Christmas Day traditions is the reading of the birth narrative. In my imagination, this is a serene setting, the tree aglow, all the children sitting quietly as I read the story of…
The Gift Of Life
This is part of the series The Gifts Of The Holidays: Celebrating Thanksgiving And Christmas. Read more from the series! As we start to wrap up the Gifts of the Holidays series, I want to take a look at one final gift: the gift of life. There are lots of things that remind me of…
The Gift Of Love
This is part of the series The Gifts Of The Holidays: Celebrating Thanksgiving And Christmas. Read more from the series! Perhaps one of the most significant gifts of Christmas is the gift of love. God is love. John 4:8-12 give us a great explanation of love: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love…
Our Tradition: Christmas Eve Candle Light Service
This is part of the series The Gifts Of The Holidays: Celebrating Thanksgiving And Christmas. Read more from the series! My family has a tradition that I’d never heard of when I was a kid: Christmas Eve services. I first heard of this idea when I started my first youth ministry in El Dorado Springs,…