Do you ever feel like Charlie Brown at Christmas? Does it feel like joy is elusive, that your gentle parenting is failing, that your anxiety keeps rising?

God invites you to be joyful, gentle, and anxiety-free, and he reminds us that the power to be joyful, gentle, and anxiety-free is not something that comes from you or me. It comes from the Lord, because the Lord is near.

Listen to this week's sermon to hear how Jesus' nearness enables our joy.