It would be really easy to approach the home stretch of 2017 with the blues. So, we want to cheer you up! We want to party! Everyone loves a good party and what better reason to celebrate than Jesus? In fact, we believe that Christmas can change the world because Christmas is all about Jesus!

Christmas doesn’t always feel like the most wonderful time of the year. Obligations, money, family drama, and loved ones who are not around can make us feel sad and stressed out. But what if there was a way for us to have a deep joy that overcomes all of these circumstances?

"When you get excited about God, don't expect everybody to get excited about your excitement. You intensity confronts their passivity...Some people will be inspired by what God is doing in your life, but others will mask their conviction with criticism. After all it's much easier to criticize than it is to change ourselves... We criticize in others what we don't like about ourselves."
― Mark Batterson

Most people don’t have a problem with God. After all, plenty of people show up for church on Christmas and Easter. But unfortunately people do have a problem with the church. Over the centuries Christians have made Christianity so complex that people simply write it off as irrelevant and confusing.

“You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness...You converted me to yourself so that I was no longer seeking a wife or any other hope of worldly success...I was standing firm on that rule of faith on which you showed me to her in a vision so many years before.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions