Christmas Eve Order and Bulletin Sample

Christmas Eve worship is one of the most beautiful and inspiring times in the life of a congregation and in the ministry of a pastor. The service may be seen by the pastor as challenging because everyone knows that you are going to say something about Continue Reading

A Song for the First Sunday in Advent as I go Preaching

It is the first Sunday in Advent. I am about to preach on this wonderous day in the Christian year. As I am, my thoughts go back to a time many years ago when I was church planting. I used to come into this borrowed chapel, Whitefield Chapel, at Bethesda Continue Reading

Elizabeth’s Song: An Advent Sermon

The next movement in the Symphony of Christmas after Mary’s opening happens as Mary travels from Nazareth to the hill country of Judea.  One commentator has written that: “[Mary] probably traveled fifty to seventy miles from Nazareth to Zechariah’s Continue Reading