Merry Christmas. On this fourth and final Sunday of Advent, we turn our attention to God’s unending love—a love that did not remain distant, abstract, or untouchable, but took on flesh and bone and came near.

Advent invites us to slow down and remember the story of Jesus’ coming: Hope. Peace. Joy. Love.

Not as ideas, but as a Person.

This message explores the deepest truth of Christmas: Immanuel — God with us.
A God who was once experienced as “above” and unapproachable draws near in Jesus, enters family life, touches the fearful, restores the broken, and ultimately comes to dwell within us by His Spirit.

We reflect on:

• Why humanity’s deepest longing is not for answers, success, or control—but for God Himself

• How Jesus reveals the Father fully and completely

• What the incarnation tells us about love, family, and belonging

• How the Christmas story moves from God above us → God with us → God within us

• Why the birth of Jesus is not just a celebration, but an invitation

We also look closely at the nativity story through the lens of Scripture and first-century culture, discovering that Jesus was born not in isolation, but into family—pointing to God’s heart to place the lonely into families and reconcile us into His own.

This message reminds us that Christmas is not about behavior modification or religious striving. It is about receiving love—a love wide and long and high and deep, a love that heals, restores, and sends us back into the world as carriers of that same love.

As we close Advent and step into Christmas, the invitation remains: Open your heart. Say yes. Receive the God who came for you—and now lives in you.

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Advent Week 3

This week we stepped into the Advent theme of Peace, but not the thin version of peace we often imagine. In Isaiah 9, Jesus is called the Prince of Peace, and the angels in Luke 2 proclaim “peace on earth.” Yet when we look at our world, our culture, or even our own homes, it often feels like the opposite.In this message, we explore the deeper biblical meaning of shalom—a word that goes far beyond the absence of conflict. Shalom means wholeness, harmony, restoration, and everything broken being made whole again. It is personal, relational, social, and cosmic. And it’s the kind of peace Jesus came to bring.

We talk about:

• Why “peace” can feel impossible in a fractured world
• The difference between calm circumstances and true shalom
• How Jesus’ kingdom is increasing even in places of grief and struggle
• What it means that of His peace there will be no end
• How we live as ambassadors of peace in a world desperate to experience it