Introduction: Do we suffer from a misconception of Christmas?
Christmas, for Joseph, was all about STEWARDSHIP.
Are we ever really ready when the story comes calling?
How a story ends matters, doesn’t it?
Before God’s happy ending for the world can come, the current dark spiritual forces that run the world must be dealt with. The Story tells us that Jesus will return to our earth to do just that, justly making war with these forces and defeating them forever so that He can establish God’s rule over…
Jesus’ followers realized soon after His resurrection that it wasn’t yet time for God’s kingdom to come to earth. Instead, Jesus intended for them to bear witness to the whole world of His victory over sin and death at the Cross and to the Kingdom still to come. The Holy Spirit came to empower them…