The Christmas Story

What do you know about the Christmas story? Not the story you heard from your grandmother or your grandfather. Not the story you were told in school, or even the story you heard in Sunday school. What do you know about the Christmas story in the Bible? When was the last time you read it?

Personally I'm very familiar with the Christmas story. I've read it often over the years from the pages of God's word. But this year as I dove into the Christmas story in the Gospel of Luke I decided that I was going to take my time and focus on some of the aspects of the Christmas story that I  had perhaps overlooked in years past. This Sunday I'll be sharing a message about the stable that Jesus was born in. As I thought about that stable I was confronted with several different things that I personally have in common with that stable. If you can make it to church this weekend I think this interesting take on the Christmas story will both encourage and inspire you.

I want to encourage you to read the Christmas story in the coming days, focus on it, meditate, think about it, let yourself become immersed in the drama that surrounds the birth of our Savior. Take a fresh look, don't just glance at it and think that you already know the story, instead pretend that you've never heard it before and examine it closely from beginning to end. Don't just do this once, take time to read it every day and focus on it every day. I promise you will be blessed!

Pastor Pete