Three Sundays of Advent and Christmas morning at New Hope, following love from promise to announcement to the manger.
Christmas is the story of love coming down to us. Through Advent 2022, New Hope followed that love across four Sundays, from ancient promise to the night it arrived in Bethlehem.
Love Promised, Love Announced, Love Arrived, and Every Heart a Manger. The series moves through the season toward the manger, where the hope of the world was laid as a child. It's the reason we gather at Christmas.
December 4 to December 25, 2022 · 4 Messages
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6
Isaiah 53:3-5
The Christmas story does not begin in Matthew. Pastor Tim Rolen opens the Love Came Down series in the Old Testament, from Isaiah 53:3-5 to Micah 5:2, on promises made centuries before anyone could have arranged to keep them.
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Luke 1:26-38
Five people were told Jesus was coming, and every one of them reacted differently. Pastor Mark Addis works through Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 2:8-14, from Mary's yes to Herod's plot, and asks which reaction is ours.
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2 Timothy 1:8-10
The first Christians did not celebrate Christmas at all. Pastor Tim Rolen asks why in 2 Timothy 1:8-10 and Titus 2:11-14, and finds that they were not ignoring the birth. They simply refused to cut the life of Jesus into pieces.
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A Christmas morning conversation between two pastors that becomes something else entirely. Tim Rolen and Mark Addis trade Christmas memories, read Max Lucado on why God chose a barnyard, and then Pastor Tim hands over the Bible he preached his first sermon from.
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