Various members of the ministry staff will be reflecting on a number of Bible characters and what it meant for them to walk with God.

Today we will go through the Christmas Eve Story in the book of John and how Jesus is the Light that came into the world on Christmas.

We have affirmed again that the first and true gift of Christmas is Jesus Christ Himself, coming down to us as a light in our darkness (Is. 9:2,6). As with any gift, however, this coming of Christ calls for response.

The season of Advent anticipates the "coming" or "arrival" of Jesus. While we celebrate His first coming, we continue to await His second coming when He will return to fulfil what was set in motion through HIs birth, life, death and resurrection.

On this First Sunday of Advent, we focus on the hope Jesus came to bring. In Colossians 3:5-11 Paul gets very practical about how setting our hearts and minds on Christ should impact our lives at the level of those issues where we struggle to follow Him. Paul exposes the root cause of our sin and challenges us to invite Christ's transformative power into these root causes. Rather than hide these painful chapters, God chooses to bring these stories to the light relating to the coming of Jesus to earth. This is a powerful reminder that Jesus walks with us amid our pain.

Pastor Lyle goes through different examples of anger. greed. sexuality, and pride and how they effect us when we will let them become our ultimate instead of Christ.

Our journey through Colossians has repeatedly emphasized how walking with God is not about external conformity to a list of rules. What then, is it about? At the beginning of chapter 3, Paul turns his thoughts toward this question, beginning with a challenge that we take a hard and honest look at our ultimate affections and allegiances. Put another way, "what do we love and what makes life worth living?"

Our walk with Jesus is not without potential diversions, so let's be prayerfully aware of the pull toward...

Freedom from disqualification to a place of belonging with God's people, freedom from guilt and shame, freedom from the powers of darkness.

Today is Reformation Sunday. Our whole theme of walking WITH God in personal relationship rests on the return to Biblical truth that came out of the Protestant Reformation. This truth has been summarized in five rallying cries that have come to be known as the five 'solar'.