Preaching on Birth of Christ? Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas.
Born to Save
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What do you need today? There are so many ways we could probably answer that question. Some might say, “I need a vacation. I need a ...
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Behold the Lamb of God
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I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Now we flip the page and enter the season on the church calendar known as Advent. Advent is different ...
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Waiting for Christmas
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Isn’t it so hard to wait to open your gifts? I remember when I was around 9 years old, my brother and I wanted an electric race car ...
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‘Glory to the Newborn King’
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I love singing Christmas carols and Christmas songs. Maybe you do too. A couple weeks ago I was at a Christmas party, and we sang a couple ...
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‘What Child Is This?’
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In the year 1865, William Chatterton Dix, who was a businessman in Glasgow, Scotland, suddenly came down with a serious illness. ...
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Christmas Presence
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I invite you take a moment, in this busy season, to just breathe. Be present in this body, in this moment, in this place, with these people. ...
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Two Key Women of Christmas
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(Read Luke 1:39-56)
On several occasions, King Abdullah II of Jordan has disguised himself and mingled with his subjects. He does this to better ...
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What Do We Do Now?
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Fritz Kreisler the world-famous violinist, earned a fortune with his concerts and compositions, but he generously gave most of it away. So, ...
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Advent: Hope
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If you are new to Advent, it’s based on an ancient Latin word. Ad is Latin for “to ”, and vent for “come.” ...
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Advent Conspiracy: Give More
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Every year we celebrate Christmas and for most people it’s a big deal. We decorate our home, send out cards, buy gifts, throw parties, ...
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The Gift of Christmas Light
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In his book Every Good Endeavor, Tim Keller explains the three elements of a story. He points out that a story begins when something knocks ...
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A Predictable Christmas
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It's that time of year that you are either excited, or maybe a bit disappointed. Some of us are excited because, well, there are sales, ...
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Skipping Christmas
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“Always winter, but never Christmas.” That memorable line comes to us from C. S. Lewis’ beloved children’s classic ...
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Why the Feeding Trough?
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How about this for a true story. In 2007 my husband Jonathan and I caught a plane to Australia with Academy-Award winning director George ...
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Room Near the Inn
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We entitled our Christmas series "The Visited Planet." In 1925, Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote a book called The Everlasting Man. ...
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The Once Wise Man
A wise man ... A man of knowledge ... An advisor to kings.
These were once words used to describe me. Of course, I had not actively pursued such distinction. ...
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Growing in Wisdom
This sermon is part of the “More Than a Holiday” sermon series. See the whole series here.
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I’m excited to kick off our Advent ...
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Christmas Stories: A Dark Story
This sermon is part of the “Christmas Stories” sermon series. See the whole series here.
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(Read Matthew 2:13-18)
The gun fired and ...
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Christmas Stories: A Jesus Story
This sermon is part of the “Christmas Stories” sermon series. See the whole series here.
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(Read Luke 2:1-20)
How it starts
Listen, ...
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Christmas Stories: A War Story
This sermon is part of the “Christmas Stories” sermon series. See the whole series here.
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(Read Revelation 12:1-6)
Once upon a time ...
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Connecting the Dots at Christmas
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My professor Haddon Robinson from seminary tells a story about a married woman who decided to go on her own private vacation to Europe. She ...
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The Gift of the Son: Mighty God
This sermon is part of “The Gift of the Son” sermon series. See the whole series here.
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For this Advent sermon series leading up ...
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The Gift of the Son: Wonderful Counselor
This sermon is part of “The Gift of the Son” sermon series. See the whole series here.
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The first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning ...
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The Son and the Dragon
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Christmas has always had a dark side. Last year, I caught the opening moments of Christmas in Rockefeller Center, aired live from New York ...
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How Can I Enjoy Christmas?
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Christmas can be so chaotic, can't it? I mean, this whole season can be such a disconnect between what we expect and what we end up experiencing. ...
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How Can I Be a Gift at Christmas?
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As we live in the gap between Christmas expectations and Christmas reality, we end up raising really profound questions about this whole deal ...
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Estimating the Value of God's Gift
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Christmas was an exciting time and Joey was excited too; as excited as any 10-year-old boy could be. For him Christmas was still a time ...
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Who Is Jesus?
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Who is Jesus? So this is the time we celebrate Christ's birth. And we have many traditions to commemorate Christ's birth. But the question ...
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More Than a Baby
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We find in Luke 1 the well-known story of the prophecy of the birth of Jesus that comes to Mary. Most of you could give me the details of ...
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Have Yourself a Global Little Christmas
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[The sermon began with a 30-second clip from the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," performed by Michal Bublé.]
I really ...
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A Disgraceful Christmas
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I want to ask us a question: What words do you associate with Christmas? I did that exercise with myself and this is the list of words that ...
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God with Skin
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I don't know if you saw the story in the CBC News about the data from NASA that was recently published. This data shows that in our galaxy, ...
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Oh Christmas Three
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We have been reflecting on the birth of Jesus, and what we found in this season that we celebrate is that when God chose to enter his own ...
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The Forgotten Man of Christmas
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There was a family which like many of our families has a Nativity set, and each Christmas season they would set that Nativity set up beneath ...
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Preparing for the Gift
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December is a month that raises all kinds of feelings for us. Some really look forward to this time. For others there are things that we dread ...
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The Promise of the Ages
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Our generation has witnessed a new and compelling interest in the study of genealogy. Perhaps this is because every five years more than twenty ...
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What Child Is This?
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I want to wish you a very blessed and Merry Christmas.
We just finished singing "What Child Is This?" and I think it's an appropriate ...
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Zechariah's Song
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Starting last week, this week, and next week, we are taking some time in our preparation for and anticipation of the holiday season to look ...
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Simeon's Song
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I've been reading a gift somebody got for me. It's a fascinating book called Medieval Views of the Cosmos. When I say it's fascinating, ...
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The Life Was Made Manifest
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Christmas is definitely a wonderful time of year. But it's also a bit of a production, right? On average there will be $800 spent for every ...
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Later On, We'll Conspire
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There's something subversive about Christmas. To subvert something is to overthrow it, usually by indirect means. Subversion isn't a frontal ...
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When God Came to the BBC
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"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and they will call him Immanuel, which means God with us."
Dorothy Sayers is known ...
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God's Favor
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It is so good to gather on this special Christmas morning and welcome our Lord Jesus Christ into the world to celebrate his birth together. ...
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The "Unbelievable" True Story of Christmas
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One of the ironies of modern history is that the majority of people who celebrate around Christmas have never really heard the real Christmas ...
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The Great Polarizer
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Few events change the lives of a married couple more than the birth of a child. You take a stable relationship of a husband and wife and suddenly ...
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Down Lower, Up Higher
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There was no question he loved her. He was absolutely bedazzled by her. It was surprising, really, because she was quite plain. But ...
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The Larger Story of Christmas
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It's just after ten o'clock on Christmas Eve, which means there are a handful of questions floating around this room: Did I remember ...
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The Gloria in Excelsis Deo
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Today we're going to look at Luke chapter 2. There is a Christmas song tucked within this Christmas story that I want to uncover—a song ...
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Recognizing Divine Interruptions
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, ...
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The Neglected Joseph Davidson
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I think I had better introduce myself. My name is Joseph Davidson. Many of you already know me. I've been hanging around Christmas for a long ...
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