What’s This? Rediscovering the Wonder of Christmas | The Lights (John 1:1-9)

John 1:1-9

 ADVENT is a time in which the CHURCH REMEMBERS & WAITS:

 REMEMBERS – that the LIGHT came into the WORLD bringing LIFE and HOPE

John 8:12; Isaiah 9:6

WAITS – for the day that the LIGHT returns in fullness, removing DARKNESS for ETERNITY 

Hebrews 9:27-28; John 16:33; John 16:22

“Oh there’s an empty place in my bones, that calls out for something unknown” – Jack Skellington aka “The Pumpkin King”

Ecclesiastes 3:11

 To REPLICATE Christmas WITHOUT CHRIST is to MISS Christmas altogether.

Isaiah 7:14

 This ADVENT, look at the LIGHTS, not as your JOY – but as a reminder of JESUS CHRIST, the LIGHT OF MEN.

Romans 14:17; Romans 5:2