Invitation to Celebration!

Doesn't it make our sorrow and suffering-weary heartsLeap with hope and joy?!As once more we ponder the wonderful giftof Bethlehem's Baby Boy,  Emmanuel, meaning God with us!!No matter what life bringsNo trouble can transcend JesusAnd the comfort that still ringsThroughout the centuriesFor mankind's common groundFor we all need God's Gift of graceOnly in Jesus found Ehp.2:1-10As 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[] 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 *** Emmanuel has come! The Saviour of the worldThe Patriarch of Christendom, hope's beacon has unfurledThe Lamb of Calvary, the Shepherd of the soulJesus, to fulfill prophecy since Ancient Days foretold Come, and faith's Gift receive, bow before He who saidThat all who repent and believe, in death are never deadBut have eternal life. The battle Jesus wonUpon the cross sweetens faith's strife through the gift of God's Son He whose sorrow subdued, nay, conquered death and hellHe bore sin's brutal debt accrued since Adam and Eve fell In Eden's garden when through doubt they were deceivedAnd sinned; perfection ruined then, and the Creator grieved Hark! for the angel's song still fills dark night with MornGood tidings of great joy belong to sinners, weary-wornWhom God did not ignore, but gave, through love's increaseJesus! 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.1:21She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”