Christmas may be one of the most simple yet confusing holidays on the calendar. Ask the average person about the meaning of Christmas and they have high expectations for it to be a time for great parties, exceptional gifts, meaningful family celebrations and the like. But when Christmas passes, most of these same people feel like it never fully lived up to their expectations or their predictions. Perhaps they have missed it’s most simple message: that God sent His Son to us in such humility and love that we should respond in kind. When we do, we can attend “God’s party”, experience the “greatest gift” of all, and have the most “meaningful celebration with God’s family.” But it all comes down to what it is that we really want for Christmas. We’ll examine how God’s predictions of it and how our expectations for it can make this Christmas your best Christmas ever.

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Christmas may be one of the most simple yet confusing holidays on the calendar. Ask the average person about the meaning of Christmas and they have high expectations for it to be a time for great parties, exceptional gifts, meaningful family celebrations and the like. But when Christmas passes, most of these same people feel like it never fully lived up to their expectations or their predictions. Perhaps they have missed it’s most simple message: that God sent His Son to us in such humility and love that we should respond in kind. When we do, we can attend “God’s party”, experience the “greatest gift” of all, and have the most “meaningful celebration with God’s family.” But it all comes down to what it is that we really want for Christmas. We’ll examine how God’s predictions of it and how our expectations for it can make this Christmas your best Christmas ever.

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Christmas may be one of the most simple yet confusing holidays on the calendar. Ask the average person about the meaning of Christmas and they have high expectations for it to be a time for great parties, exceptional gifts, meaningful family celebrations and the like. But when Christmas passes, most of these same people feel like it never fully lived up to their expectations or their predictions. Perhaps they have missed it’s most simple message: that God sent His Son to us in such humility and love that we should respond in kind. When we do, we can attend “God’s party”, experience the “greatest gift” of all, and have the most “meaningful celebration with God’s family.” But it all comes down to what it is that we really want for Christmas. We’ll examine how God’s predictions of it and how our expectations for it can make this Christmas your best Christmas ever.

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Christmas may be one of the most simple yet confusing holidays on the calendar.  Ask the average person about the meaning of Christmas and they have high expectations for it to be a time for great parties, exceptional gifts, meaningful family celebrations and the like.  But when Christmas passes, most of these same people feel like it never fully lived up to their expectations or their predictions.  Perhaps they have missed it’s most simple message: that God sent His Son to us in such humility and love that we should respond in kind.  When we do, we can attend “God’s party”, experience the “greatest gift” of all, and have the most “meaningful celebration with God’s family.”  But it all comes down to what it is that we really want for Christmas.  We’ll examine how God’s predictions of it and how our expectations for it can make this Christmas your best Christmas ever.

12/23/12   Predictions: God’s Party Invitations 

12/24/12   Expectations: A Wonder-Full Christmas? {Christmas Eve services}

12/30/12   After Party: Life Beyond The Holidays 

The New Testament Book Of Acts chronicles the birth, growth and expansion of the church. In Acts 1:8, God predicted that He would give His followers power by the Holy Spirit to be spreaders of the Good News for Him in Jerusalem, Judea and to the very last part of the earth. Starting on the day of Pentecost (a few weeks after Jesus’s resurrection on Easter Sunday) God gave birth to the church and since then the church has been growing and the message has been spreading just as God said that it would. And it has impacted the world like no other message! Acts 17:6 says that the disciples were turning the world upside down and God wants those who follow Him to be a part of His continued work today. We’ll survey the book of Acts and examine some of the key stories in it to surface strategies that we can all apply in our lives to be the kind of people that are used by God to impact our world for the better.

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SERIES PURPOSE: The New Testament Book Of Acts chronicles the birth, growth and expansion of the church. In Acts 1:8, God predicted that He would give His followers power by the Holy Spirit to be spreaders of the Good News for Him in Jerusalem, Judea and to the very last part of the earth. Starting on the day of Pentecost (a few weeks after Jesus’s resurrection on Easter Sunday) God gave birth to the church and since then the church has been growing and the message has been spreading just as God said that it would. And it has impacted the world like no other message! Acts 17:6 says that the disciples were turning the world upside down and God wants those who follow Him to be a part of His continued work today. We’ll survey the book of Acts and examine some of the key stories in it to surface strategies that we can all apply in our lives to be the kind of people that are used by God to impact our world for the better.
“And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also” (Acts 17:6, ESV)

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The New Testament Book Of Acts chronicles the birth, growth and expansion of the church. In Acts 1:8, God predicted that He would give His followers power by the Holy Spirit to be spreaders of the Good News for Him in Jerusalem, Judea and to the very last part of the earth. Starting on the day of Pentecost (a few weeks after Jesus’s resurrection on Easter Sunday) God gave birth to the church and since then the church has been growing and the message has been spreading just as God said that it would. And it has impacted the world like no other message! Acts 17:6 says that the disciples were turning the world upside down and God wants those who follow Him to be a part of His continued work today. We’ll survey the book of Acts and examine some of the key stories in it to surface strategies that we can all apply in our lives to be the kind of people that are used by God to impact our world for the better.

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Live, sharing her inspiring story, is Jill Kelly, wife of former quarterback Jim Kelly: Making a Comeback from Loss.