(2 Thessalonians 3:16)…..Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all. Several times the Bible refers to God as the God of peace. But as English readers we miss the full meaning. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament of the Bible was written in Greek. All English Bibles are translations. The Greek word translated peace is eirene (i-ray’-nay), which corresponds with the Hebrew word translated peace, shalom (shaw-lome’). If you study extensively, both in the …

We are coming to the end of another year with a new year in front of us. Faced with new challenges, it looms out there waiting for you to enter, and enter we will do. But what kind of people will we be as we face all of life problems. Will we be like the people of od that we read about in (Hebrews 11)? This morning take a look at these people in this devotion. Ask the Lord to help you have faith like these. Realize that God has …

What is it that makes the birth of Jesus Christ a Holy event? First of all we are celebrating the birth of a Holy King this month where many consider it one of “the most holy” of religious holidays. As for the actual day of Jesus’ birth, the New Testament provides no clues to the exact day. The Scriptures simply states that it happened in the days of Caesar Augustus and while Quirinius was governing Syria (Luke 2:1-2). A man by the name of Sextus Julius Africanus popularized the idea …

This is the season that we give gifts to those we love. Sometimes we receive gifts we can use, sometimes we don’t. How many spend the days after Christmas taking back things we pretended to enjoy or like? I suppose there are many. Many look to gifts or to holidays to satisfy their lives spiritually, but the ruth is satisfaction in life only comes through one gift. A relationship with Jesus Christ is the greatest gift you could ever receive.

God’s gift of life that is in His Son is not …

There has been much discussion over the years over the celebration of Christmas. Traditionally, for the Christian, Christmas has been the day of worshiping the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now it seems the world, the devil, are working overtime to remove the mention of Christ from Christmas. Trying to remove any reminder of why we celebrate December 25th.

The word “Christmas” has become to offensive to many in this world. Why? Because it contains reference to Jesus Christ, so the name of Christ must be removed. Call …

Our passage this morning in Isaiah is a prophecy of Christ, illustrating His majestic title and position as the King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s, Who when He entered this world in Bethlehem, was much more than a baby in the manger. I hope you see the birth of Christ as much more than a Christmas time story. More than a tradition that brings with it eggnog, presents, feasts and day after sales. Let’s examine our passage.

“For Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given…..”…

This is that time of year where everyone is in a rush to go shopping, to get a present for a loved one, to push and shove your way through your favorite store, only to be fifteen minutes into the adventure and then having a desire for it to all be over. The commercial part of Christmas that is. That’s probably due to losing our perspective of what the season is suppose to represent. The significance of the birth of Jesus is that it made possible…..

• The establishment of the kingdom

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In (Genesis 3:15) God declares that from the woman’s seed would come One who would destroy Satan’s work and power. That is precisely what Jesus did (1 John 3:8). So amazing is God’s plan of redemption that God knew the right time for Jesus to be born to accomplish His purpose (Galatians 4:4). From the beginning God began to move an ancestral line which would bring about the birth of Jesus Christ, and we can read of this genealogy of Jesus Christ in (Matthew 1:1-17)(Luke 3:23-38).

Matthew’s genealogy …