Christmas

“Eve services I don't know if you guys ever go to Christmas Eve services at Christmas time I don't know if you guys I'm sure you guys have those here so at our church we have like thousands of christmas eve services i think and all these different languages and all these different places and and so i personally had to go to six of them and i make all of my kids i don't make my kids do anything at church but i make them go to christmas eve services they have to dress up they have to all go to church they have to get up on the stage with me we read the christmas story together six times in a row three the night before christmas eve three actually christmas eve so by”

“You can listen to Christmas music if you want to. I'm sure all the Christmas decorations are up and ready to go. I saw someone with a Christmas sweater on this morning. I was like, yes, it is time. It is time, and I'm grateful for that. And many of us have old Christmas. My family, we go and we cut down a Christmas tree and we decorate it all day the day after Thanksgiving. Maybe you're forming new Christmas traditions. I'm gonna encourage you to do that as well. Don't just stick with the old ones. Find new ones to do, because that's fun.”

“Christmas season, and we're calling it the Christmas Psalm, the Christmas Psalm. Of course, nothing adds to the merriment, the joy, the enrichment, the beauty, the wonder of Christmas like Christmas music, and we all have our favorite Christmas carols, not to mention all the other songs that go along. But having said that, the Word of God is also a songbook. And the Psalms are the songbook of the Bible, 150 different expressions of just about every”

“All the Christmas music stops playing, the lights get taken down, the trees go away. I love the Christmas season. I love the preparation for it. I love Christmas Eve service. And if I'm ever at one where there's not candle lights, Christmas didn't happen that year. I love Christmas. But what the promise of the ascension should do in our lives is remind us every day that the best is yet to come.”

“and then showing up in New York and having Christmas trees and the lights and the music and everything. It was so weird and unexpected to almost just be dropped into the Christmas season, nine days into it. And then it hit me all of a sudden when I landed in New York and saw all the different Christmas displays that we haven't bought one gift for Christmas. We're not ready for any gathering for Christmas. And there's all of these unexpected things that kind of come our way with this season.”

“We gather today. May I be among the very first to say Merry Christmas. We've decked the halls and we're opening the doors for our gathered worship services during this Christmas season. And we will have many special moments and opportunities to encounter Jesus together. I trust by now you are aware we have magnificent Christmas Eve services planned for 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m. at the Columbia County Performing Arts Center on Christmas Eve. Christmas at the pack, as we know it. Tickets”

“aware and understand a few things about how we're going to be preparing for Christmas as a church. And some of you are new because we're a new campus. Some of you are new to Warren in general. And Warren, every year for the past few years, really post-COVID, has done a large gathering with all the campuses on Christmas Eve called Christmas at the Pack, which is Christmas at the columbia county performing arts center and that will be christmas eve at 1 3 and 5 p.m you do need”

“months away from Christmas I'm not going to remember your list write it down right and so they write down all kinds of things that they want for Christmas and so what we made a decision Nick and I and his wisdom really is we decided to instead of talking about what they want for Christmas and being on this kind of desired train if I want this I want this I want this I want this I want this I want this we went hey what did you get for Christmas last year oh anybody remember I don't remember what I got for Christmas last year and”