The expectancy we feel at Christmas echoes the longing of our souls for Christ’s return. Pastor Nick Cash’s Christmas Eve message calls us to connect the miracle of the Savior-who-came with His promise to come again in full and final triumph!

In this Advent series, we have considered how we prepare for His arrival, doing so with faith-filled anticipation, and we have pondered the meaning of it all in the story of the shepherds. Today we reflect, through the story of the Magi, on the appropriate response. How shall we respond to this good news, this Savior born to us who is Christ the Lord?

Pastor Mike Hofer leads us through Luke’s account of the Christmas story, which reveals not only the arrival of the Christ child, but also the arrival of the presence and prophecy of God, and the common to the uncommon.

Advent is a season of anticipation. We all are waiting for God to come, for Jesus to be born in our lives. In our story today, Simeon and Anna set great examples for how we can live well in anticipation.

We end this year with a focus on Advent, the season of the Christian year in which we celebrate the earthly arrival of Jesus our Savior King. Week 1 of this five-week message series addresses the extensive preparation God the Father made in sending us His Son.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 makes clear when we should give thanks: In ALL circumstances. When we do so, even in hardship, we experience God's presence, which is what we need above all else.

With a look at all four Gospel accounts of Jesus feeding the five thousand, Nick Cash explores how to be thankful when circumstances suggest otherwise.

Over the next three weeks, we will examine three different contexts for

thanksgiving: In the ordinary moments of life, in lacking – those moments when it seems there is not enough – and in the hard moments of pain and struggle. Today we explore the first of these.

The final message in our “Acts Awakenings” series focuses on the story of Paul and Silas, who while imprisoned modeled for us the power of praise in the face of adversity. May we take their example to heart.

Continuing our Acts study of the Holy Spirit’s awakening moves in and through the early followers of Jesus, we examine here how they were awakened to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, and how we may be awakened to Him as well.