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Showing posts with label Advent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advent. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: The Shepherds - Luke 2:8-9,15-17

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  On that blessed Christmas morn, as the newborn baby Jesus lay in the manger and Mary and Joseph marvel at what has happened in their lives...

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: Anna - Luke 2:36-38

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  After Simeon's bold prophecy about who and what this child will be, Luke follows up with the shorter story of Anna, focused not on her...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: Simeon - Luke 2:25-35

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  After the shepherds and the angels had paid their visit on the day of Jesus' birth, Luke offers a look at two individuals led by the H...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: King Herod - Matthew 2:3-8,13-18

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  Often forgotten amidst the joy and celebration of Christmas, King Herod attempting to thwart God's sending of the Messiah from its sta...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

sermon video: The supporting cast at Advent: The Magi - Matthew 2:1-2,9-12

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  We all know about the central characters in the story of Christmas, but what about those "cast" by God in a supporting role?  Th...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Sermon Video: The Light that was seen from afar, Matthew 2:1-2,9b-11

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  The Light seen by the Magi of the East is powerfully symbolic in Matthew's Gospel.  This astronomical phenomenon brought them on a lon...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Sermon Video: The Mother of the Messiah, Luke 1:26-38

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After having appeared to the priest Zechariah in the Temple in Jerusalem to foretell the coming of the great prophet John, God's plan sh...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Sermon Video: Joseph adopts the Messiah, Matthew 1:18-25

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  Joseph of Nazareth was a fairly ordinary man up until the moment he found out that he fiancé Mary was pregnant.  Instead of letting pride ...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Sermon Video: The Ancestors of the Messiah - Matthew 1:1-17

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When you are someone as important to history as Jesus of Nazareth, the long-awaited Messiah, curiosity about your ancestry is only natural. ...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Christmas Eve joint worship service: Sermons from Pastor Eric Phillips and Pastor Randy Powell - Luke 2:8-14

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In our second combined service with Redeemer Anglican Church, Pastor Eric Phillips and Pastor Randy Powell share the honor of bringing the C...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Sermon Video: Joseph graciously accepts the Christmas gift he didn't ask for - Matthew 1:18-24

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Have you ever received a Christmas gift that you absolutely hated?  One that you can't wait to return, one that you struggle to pretend ...

Sermon Video: God's unexpected Christmas gifts - Luke 1:34-38

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Perhaps you've received an amazingly unexpected and wonderful Christmas gift at some point, whatever it was, it can't begin to compa...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Sermon Video: The Justice of God's Chosen One - Isaiah 42:1-4

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In addition to his expected role as Messiah of king, Jesus added that of prophet and priest, but even more remarkably, that of servant as we...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Sermon Video: Bring the Good News - Isaiah 40:9-11

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Having brought good news to the exiles of Judah in Babylon, the prophet Isaiah now calls upon them to share that news, shouting it from the ...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Sermon Video: Advent Witnesses Part 5 - Shepherds: The 1st Evangelists, Luke 2:8-18

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  As we continue to consider the Advent of Jesus Christ from the perspective of the witnesses, we now come to the day of his birth and a num...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Sermon Video: Advent Witnesses part 4 - Prophets and Angels: Curious Messengers, 1 Peter 1:10-12

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When considering the 1st Christmas, let us not forget those who had longed to see that days for hundreds, even thousands of years. The prop...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Sermon Video: Advent Witnesses part 3 - Elizabeth: A Secondary Blessing - Luke 1:39-44

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Continuing to examine the first Advent through the eyes of its eyewitnesses, we turn to Elizabeth, the long-suffering wife of the priest Zec...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Sermon Video: Advent Witnesses part 2 - Joseph: A Kind Husband, Matthew 1:18-19

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As Matthew relates the event of the first Christmas, the focus is upon Joseph, the adopted father of Jesus.  We learn that Joseph is like hi...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Sermon Video: Advent Witnesses part 1: Mary, willing servant - Luke 1:38

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  As we look at the Advent story this year from the perspective of the eyewitnesses, we begin with Mary. If is difficult to put ourselves i...
Friday, December 25, 2020

Sermon Video: The Word Became Flesh - John 1:14

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  Amidst the wonder of Christmas, the angels and shepherds, the wise men and the star, is a deeper amazing truth. That moment in Bethlehem ...