Church notes - Christmas 2019

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Christmas is about reflecting on Jesus coming

Isaiah 7:14

Luke 2:8 - 20

Matthew 2:1 - 12

The Story of Christmas - Jesus is Born

Reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:18 - 19
The Pinnacle of reconciliation in the Bible.

Isaiah 7:14

Immanuel God with us.
God in us.

He is with us. In us.

Forest Gump - rejected by everyone on the bus, except Jenny.

Elvis: 'I'll be blue at Christmas without you."

Loneliness
Dawkins: "The universe offers nothing, just pitiless existence."
Dawkins is wrong

Genesis 2:18

God with us mentioned hundreds of times in the Old Testament.

Jesus with us in human form.
The Holy Spirit with us.

Acts 4:13
They noted that Jesus had been with them.

A triumph for the theif on the cross.

Freedom for people who are addicted.

Loneliness means we are made for God.

Loneliness increasing.

3/4 Americans report loneliness.
Minister of Loneliness in the U.K.

Immanuel - a picture of God and sinners reconciled.

The message of Christmas is Immanuel. God with us. God and sinners reconciled. You and I moving closer to God.