It's Christmas Eve!! We'll be celebrating the true meaning of Christmas on Sunday morning at our usual time of 10:30am. Join us for a special, family-friendly candlelight celebration of the birth of Jesus, with carols and a message of joy and wonder.

We launch into this last week of Advent by continuing to make room in our hearts for Jesus. We're going to see how God chose to announce the good news of Jesus' birth to one of the more marginalized people groups in ancient times - shepherds! God continues to reach out to the marginalized, the unloved, the unwanted and the ignored, and asks us to do the same.

We continue "making room" for Jesus this Advent by preparing our hearts for the coming of the Kingdom. We will see how John the Baptist prepared the way for the coming of Jesus and the welcoming of the Kingdom to earth, making the "rough ground level and the rugged places a plain." Jesus' coming changes everything!

We will be looking at the moment when Mary was told she would give birth to our Savior. When God decides to birth a new thing, He does it! I wonder what new thing He might be birthing in us.

Celebrate the season of Advent and the coming of the Christ child! We will be "making room" for God this Advent - keeping our hearts and minds open to God and all the mysterious and wonderful ways He comes to us.

This week, we encounter a very different kind of book of the minor prophets - Habakkuk! Rather than hearing prophetic pronouncements from the prophet, in this book we are eavesdropping on a conversation between Habakkuk and God. In seeing him speak quite boldly and personally to God, and also hearing God's answer, we get to experience what an intimate relationship with God can look like.  

The prophet Zephaniah pronounced some of the worst judgments ever uttered against the Kingdom of Judah. Yet he probably helped spark one of the greatest revivals in the history of the kingdom! Join us this Sunday to see how the judgment and mercy of God worked together to restore a remnant of believers during this dramatic period of history, as world powers threatened to destroy the tiny kingdom. 

This week, we come to an unusual minor prophet - Hosea! He is called by God to do something strange and hard, and yet it is a way for God to show us His incredible, unchanging, unconditional love. God loves you, just as you are!

Locusts, locusts, everywhere! They invade like an army, eating and destroying everything in sight. That's the starting message of the prophet Joel, and the illustration he uses to help us to understand what to do in the face of ruin and suffering. Come and learn from this little-known prophet! 

This week we will take a fresh look at a familiar story - the story of Jonah and a very BIG fish! This is not just a children's Bible story but a powerful lesson about loving our enemies and obeying God.