Favorite Christmas Carols O HOLY NIGHT Luke 2:8-14; 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 In the mid-1840s, the priest of a small village in France went to the commissioner of wines in that village and asked him to write a poem for Christmas Eve. Now, this commissioner was not known as a good church member, but he was…
John 8:36, Matthew 28:16-20, Luke 2:16-17 (Full Text in PDF file) Imagine you’re an African slave in America, around the time of the Civil War – You’re working out in the cotton fields – The sun is beating down on you – Biting horseflies are buzzing around – Your fingers are bleeding, your back is…
Favorite Christmas Carols (8:30 & 11)
Christmas Playlist (Jubilee)
Week 2
JOY TO THE WORLD
Psalm 98
INTRO: We’re in a series called “Favorite Christmas Carols”
And today we’re gonna talk about one of your favorite Christmas carols that is NOT a Christmas carol!
“Let There Be Peace on Earth” 9 [a]Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan— 2 The people…
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.
25 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice:
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?”
