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God is looking for Covenant partners to rule His world with Him according to His wisdom and ways. Will we take the "forbidden fruit" of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, cutting God out of our lives and making our own way, or will we ask God to give us His divine wisdom in His time and in His way? This is the pressing question each soul must answer.

In this final week of Advent on Christmas Eve, we light the center "Christ Candle" symbolizing the light that has come into the world through Jesus Christ! Jesus has gone to the Father to prepare a home for us. Will we now receive Him?

In this, the fourth Sunday of Advent, we celebrate the LOVE God has for His people; the same love he had for Jesus before the creation of the world.

In this sermon, we see God revealing Himself to an unlikely audience, the shepherds, who became the first witnesses to the sign of Jesus' birth. They were the honored first people who were introduced to Jesus as the Savior, the Christ and the Lord made flesh.

During this season of Advent, Pastor Nathan discusses just how Jesus is our "Prince of Peace" in a world that still often feels like it is ANYTHING but peaceful! Jesus' resurrection was the HINGE on which the door to the Kingdom of God swung open, and one day it will be fully realized! Until then, it is forcefully advancing and those who are awakened are advancing it forcefully! (Matthew 11:12)

In this sermon, Pastor Nathan talks about the third movement of the Exodus. God had led his people on an EXODUS OUT of slavery in Egypt. God had then led His people on an EXODUS THROUGH the wilderness where they had learned to trust in Him. Now God was leading them on the final movement; the EXODUS IN to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! Jesus breaks every stronghold, and every wall will fall in His powerful name!

In this sermon, Pastor Nathan talks about Daniel who has lived through three administrations and two kingdoms and remained true to the True and Living God through it all. God is still on His throne, and we, like Daniel, must remain faithful to Him as He works His will to the end of days in the midst of temporary earthly kingdoms!

In this sermon, Pastor Nathan teaches about one of the greatest thanksgiving feasts ever; when a dinner was held in Jesus' honor for raising Lazarus from death to life! In this story we see how three very different people expressed their pure thanksgiving to God for His great gift! When our Thanksgiving is "dulled" in "the land of PLENTY", God can sharpen us back up when we give THANKS to Him for His great gifts!

In this sermon, Pastor Nathan shares one of the central stories of the Bible, the great Exodus of God's people from slavery in Egypt! In this story, we come to know that there is an inner slavery that only a new and better Moses, Jesus, can truly set us free from!

Guest preacher Inho Su encourages congregation to evaluate self and return to first love through the passage of Revelations 2.