To Know Him and Make Him Known
Christmas began a long time before Bethlehem, with the joys and failures, the hopes and disappointments of the Jewish people. Join us today as we look at Jesus’s genealogy in Matthew 1 to discover how the Old Testament was the ultimate “set-up” for the Christmas story.
Learning to love our neighbors as ourselves is near to the core of what it means to be a follower of Jesus. While there are many good reasons to choose to love, in the end we need God’s help if we are ever going to love our neighbors as He loves us.
Feeling love for God isn’t enough – God has called us to love Him with our minds, too. Join us as Pastor Toby discusses both WHY we should love God with our minds and HOW we can get started.
The next logical step after receiving God’s love is to reciprocate that love. Jesus calls us to do this, in part, by feeling strong emotions for God in our “heart”, or inner self. Nurturing and maintaining this passion for God is of utmost importance!
The cross where Jesus died is the ultimate proof we really are loved by God. Jesus’s decision to die for us, motivated by love, convinces us of that truth, as do the many benefits we can enjoy because He did. All that is left is to respond to this “cross of love.”
“Central to Jesus’ mission is His identity as our Savior. Join us today as we explore what this means and how it affects our life at Christmastime and everytime!”