Doesn't it make our sorrow and suffering-weary hearts
Leap with hope and joy?!
As once more we ponder the wonderful gift
of Bethlehem's Baby Boy,
Emmanuel, meaning God with us!!
No matter what life brings
No trouble can transcend Jesus
And the comfort that still rings
Throughout the centuries
For mankind's common ground
For we all need God's Gift of grace
Only in Jesus found
Ehp.2:1-10
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world
and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air,
the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
3 All of us also lived among them at one time,
gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts.
Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—
it is by grace you have been saved.
6 And God raised us up with Christ
and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,
expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—
and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are God’s handiwork,
created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Listen to Emmett Cahill's complete Christmas concert HERE
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Emmanuel has come! The Saviour of the world
The Patriarch of Christendom, hope's beacon has unfurled
The Lamb of Calvary, the Shepherd of the soul
Jesus, to fulfill prophecy since Ancient Days foretold
Come, and faith's Gift receive, bow before He who said
That all who repent and believe, in death are never dead
But have eternal life. The battle Jesus won
Upon the cross sweetens faith's strife through the gift of God's Son
He whose sorrow subdued, nay, conquered death and hell
He bore sin's brutal debt accrued since Adam and Eve fell
In Eden's garden when through doubt they were deceived
And sinned; perfection ruined then, and the Creator grieved
Hark! for the angel's song still fills dark night with Morn
Good tidings of great joy belong to sinners, weary-worn
Whom God did not ignore, but gave, through love's increase
Jesus! Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Prince of Peace
Janet Martin
The days leading up to Christmas can feel pretty crazy with busyness!
Let's never let the season crowd out its Reason!
Merry-two-days-before Christmas!
Matt.1:21
She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,
because he will save his people from their sins.”
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