O Come, O Come Emmanuel is perhaps the oldest Christmas song still popular today. It was written with a simple melody by an unknown monk in the 9th century. It was a way to tell the big story of the Messiah in a simple way that folks who couldn't read or write could learn and understand the promise of Christmas.

Mary Did You Know has kind of a haunting melody and takes us on a behind the scenes tour of what Mary might have been thinking when an angel dropped this Christmas bombshell on her. It reminds us that we are conditioned to see Christmas a certain way even though the reality might not match the expectation.

Isaac Watts & Lowell Mason would collaborate together despite being separated by half a world and nearly a century of time to write one of the most beloved Christmas songs ever. Joy to the World! It should remind us how God has had a plan through all of time to redeem us!

Jesus' interaction with a group of men in Luke 17 teaches us four ingredients that we need to build our attitude of gratitude.

If someone asked you what you’re passionate about, how would you

answer? All kinds of different things draw our attention and interest us; but

what are we really passionate about? If you examine your calendar and your

bank statement you’ll probably have a pretty good idea.

We all deal with worry to some degree or another and it is no fun! One of the biggest sources of anxiety in our world is money. Most of us have stressed at one time over money. Maybe we've worried about having enough or how to spend it best; whatever the reason, we worry.

Prosperity: a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune. It's a pretty simple word to understand and we all want to experience it, so why is prosperity so hard to grasp?

Authentic Christianity centers on really big ideas like worship of the one true God and Jesus' victory over death in resurrection. It is pretty amazing that the best ways we can live out these really big ideas is through simple things like caring for and serving others!

There is one central teaching/belief to all of Christianity: Jesus raised from the dead. Without the resurrection, nothing else matters all that much.

When we talk about worship, we often end up talking about what happens on Sunday mornings. This fallback position isn't all bad, but somewhat incomplete. In fact, the church's worship gatherings have always been a topic of conversation. It seems like when you talk about worship it is one of those topics that everyone feels like an expert. The church in Corinth was no different.