Pastor Brian and Jacque Lother
Brian: That's one of my favorite Christmas carols, the first Noel, the first night that Jesus was born. When you think of a lot of things that happened in scripture, really the title of my message really today is what could have been. When I think of so many events in our lives and in your lives and even the people in scripture, I think of Judas. What would've happened to Judas if he had have waited one more day? Do you ever think about that? If he had have seen the resurrected Christ, maybe would've had the same response that Peter did. Or what if Joe would've actually cursed God and died? That story would've been different. Or what about the rich young ruler? If he actually would have gone out and sold everything and given the, to the poor and follow Jesus, what would have been written about that rich young ruler in the scriptures?
We want to talk about this whole concept of what could have been, but before we do, I want to invite Jovita, up to read a poem to us today that she wrote. It's a Christmas poem. She read this to us some time back and I said to Jacque, we need to have her share that with our church and our online community. So let's welcome Jovita to Hope Community. God bless you, Jovita. It's good to have you here. You look lovely today. Doesn't she look lovely today? Yes. Not that she doesn't always look lovely. She has got a great poem. What's the title of your poem?
Jovita: It's "A savior is born."
Brian: A savior is born.
Jovita: Let's worship him.
Brian: Let's worship him. Wow.
Jovita: To be the glory unto you or father, the glory be. A Savior is born. Let’s worship Him. He came as a child to live among us, the alpha, the omega, the first and the last. He has all the power. Although to obey, he chose humble means of living and trade. He could have been crowned and walk among kings, but he went to the cross to save you and me. We shall celebrate in love and in peace his redeeming grace and proclaim his name, Jesus, our savior, the king of all kings. Free from condemnation or sin and eternal death, as the bride is waiting, we shall be prepared. Yes. All angels in heaven at the trumpet sound will come back with Jesus for the lost and found. We will live in heaven above and in earth dancing with the angels and giving him the praise. To God, the glory, glory to God in the highest. Merry Christmas, Jovita Alamilla. Love you.
Brian: I love you too.
Jacque: Beautiful, Jovita. Thank you so
Brian: Feliz Navidad
Jovita: Feliz Navidad.
Brian: Yes, in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jovita. Let's give her another thank you. When we look at the Christmas story, there is another one of these "what could have been" aspects to the Christmas story. We find the "what could have been" in Luke chapter two versus six and seven. I'll let you have one of my copies here, Luke chapter two, verse six and seven. This is from the New American Standard.
Jacque: While they were there, the time came for her to give birth and she gave birth to her firstborn son and she wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.
She wrapped him in cloth that she had brought from the journey from Nazareth. We watched, I think it was an aspect of The Chosen, or at least was a movie that was produced by the people who were doing The Chosen.
Jacque: A Christmas special.
Brian: A Christmas special. When you read the scriptures, the scriptures are not the unabridged edition. There is a lot of details left out of the scriptures. There is a lot of information between that never was put in there. Most barns that I've been into would not be conducive to the birth of a child without a little bit of work. This special that the producers of the chosen wrote about the Christmas story showed very clearly that when Mary and Joseph had no room in the inn, another missed opportunity for the inn keeper and they went to this stable and they had a fair amount of cleanup to do. They were cleaning up manure. They were getting the dirty hay out, maybe putting new hay in. There was a feeding trough. It was a good little place to lay a child. There was work to be done, even in the manger. It just wasn't prepared and ready for them like the Christmas cards might indicate.
When we think of Bethlehem, it was a really a relatively small town. And yet it had become a boom town because of the census requirement of Caesar Augustas. I'm not sure what this inn looked like that Jesus and Mary were basically refused entry because there was no room, but I can guarantee you, it didn't look like one of the comfort ends down here on 94. Let's read this again from the Message Bible. This might give a little bit better perspective as to what this inn was like.
Jacque: While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. She gave birth to a son, her firstborn. She wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in a manger because there was no room in the hostel.
Brian: So Eugene Peterson uses this word hostel. If you travel in Europe and, and England and so forth, it's almost kind of like our Airbnbs now. They are smaller places. There are not like 50 rooms or something like this. But wherever this in was the in keep missed a great opportunity. The in keep could have witnessed the very birth of Jesus. All he had to do was make room for this young couple from Nazareth. That's all he had to do: just make some room for him. Some people might say, well, what do you expect them to kick somebody else out of their room that had already paid good money? No, but I bet you that inn keeper had a room. I bet you that inn keeper had a place to lay his head that night. But the inn keeper didn't do that. And the scriptures contain these very sad lines that they wrapped him in swotling clothes, laid him in a manger because, and I think a better way to say this because no room was made for him in the inn. No room was made for him in the inn.
There is a lot left unsaid in this passage. We really know nothing about this inn keeper, but we actually know really, very little about the inn for that matter. You can't go to Bethlehem today, find out, well, this is where the in was. But what we do know is this: this inn keeper did not invite Jesus and Mary and Joseph, of course, Jesus wasn't born yet, but he didn't invite Mary and Joseph in. The census, of course, as I mentioned, had turned Bethlehem into a boom town. Every room and every closet and probably every hallway were occupied. If there were rollaway beds, there were probably rollaway beds put out there in the hallways as well. There was a spot, however, that they were directed to go to, which was, of course, the manger.
Jacque and I were talking about this this past week, and I thought to myself, if a couple came to my door and her water had just broken and she was in labor pain, don't you think I would invite them in? And I wouldn't say, well, there are no beds available here. Wouldn't the right thing to do be to give up your bed for this couple? Sometimes I wonder, if there were other things at play here, if there were other reasons going on, because you see, prejudice has always been an evil part of our world. The people that came from Nazareth, there was this little slogan that went throughout Israel, and it wants something like this: "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Don't we even think about that at times when we hear of people coming from different parts of our country? There is prejudice about that.
Maybe there were other reasons why the parents of Jesus were actually turned away that night. Maybe it was prejudice. Maybe the inn keeper didn't like crying babies. But does not the scripture say that that out of the mouth of babies, God hath ordained praise? So don't you think that the praise that babies create for God sounds different than the words that we might articulate? And of course we know babies are noisy and restless and all that sort of stuff. And I mean, this is a hotel and it's not a paternity ward. I'm sure that's how some of the thoughts process went. I also wonder if Mary Joseph would've arrived on camels with servants instead of a few cloths to wrap the baby and riding on a donkey. I wonder if they would have had a different reception.
Don't we make room for those people who are important? And yet the marginalized and the insignificant, we kind of shove to the side. Who most represents Jesus? Jesus was the kind of person that made the marginalized feel as though they had value. Jesus was the kind of man that made the disenfranchised feel as though they had a purpose for being born. if we want to be real foul followers of Jesus, not just even at this Christmas season, but all throughout the year, we need to begin to think like Jesus and act like Jesus. We need to be followers of Jesus. People ask me from time to time when they hear, if I'm a pastor, whatever, and they say, well, oh, you are a Christian. I hardly even acknowledge that anymore in my life because being a Christian has come to mean so many things that are so not like Jesus. But if you are a follower of Christ— and what I say to people is I do my best to follow the teachings of my savior, Jesus, to follow him, to be like him, to emulate him.
It's really interesting even Gandhi and other people from other faiths, other religions have a deep respect for Jesus. Even the liberals of our country who rail against conservative Christians often don't have anything negatives to say about Jesus. So shouldn't that spark something in us that if the Bill Mars of our world have nothing bad to say about Jesus, but have very little good to say about Christians, maybe we should re-evaluate how we have been living as Christians, because Jesus is who we need to be following.
The inn keeper missed a great opportunity of a lifetime. There was no herald that came with the arrival of Mary Joseph that came later. The angels heralded his coming after Jesus was born, but there was no herald that announced the arrival of Marion Joseph to the inn keeper and the inn keeper missed the opportunity of a life time. Can you imagine how his life would've been different if he would have given up his room for the birth of Jesus? We'd be talking about him today in a much more positive light. Wouldn't we? We might even know his name, but he doesn't even have a name to us. He was just the inn keeper. It's like the bookkeeper, the inn keeper.
And many still miss these opportunities. They missed the chance to open the door. That's all the inn keeper actually had to do: was open the door just in the door. Many people today let the birth of Jesus, pass them by. I appreciated what bill had to say about just really looking at this portion of scripture in first John that he read today and just let it; just meditate on it. Just think about it and embrace it. The miracle of Bethlehem still happens today. God still enters the sleepy hamlets of our lives, and he speaks to us. He speaks through the scriptures. He actually speaks to us through sunsets and snowfalls. He speaks to us through memorial services like we had yesterday. He speaks to us through Christmas carols and even Christmas lights. And Jesus is saying, “I am here. I'm right here.” And I'm actually knocking on the door of your heart. Will you make room? Will you open that door? Will you be willing to hear that knock, which is so faint at times? You see movies where somebody is really anxious to enter into a place and maybe they are being pursued by some bad guys or whatever. And they come up to the door and they don't go, do they? No, they bang on the door, right? They pound on the door. But when Jesus comes, he doesn't pound on the door of our hearts. It's a gentle knock.
Sometimes we are so busy, we just can't hear the knocking. Or sometimes we hear that faint knock— and we've had this because our doorbell doesn't work. And it's like a six year project for me to get that thing fixed.
Jacque: It's so embarrassing.
Brian: It's so embarrassing to Jacque. I say, well, it's just a doorbell that doesn't work. People can still knock, you know, many ways, but—
Jacque: We can't hear them.
Brian: Yeah, well, that's because I'm almost 71. Anyways, people come and knock on our door and sometimes we are in the far end of the house and I'll say, did someone knock? And that's how it is with Jesus. He'll knock on the door of our hearts and we will say, what was that? What was that? And just about the time we are about to open the door, the phone rings, or I’ve got to send a text or the laundry needs to be done or the grass needs to be mowed if you are in Florida or if you are in Minnesota, the walks need to be shoveled. The timer goes off reminding us of something else that we need to do. And the fact of the matter is life is crowded. Isn't it?
Life is crowded. It's hectic. I look at my calendar and sometimes I find myself thinking, I can't wait till the next two weeks are over you. Do you ever think like that? Thinking that after this next two weeks I'll have a little break? And in the next two weeks, the enemy has all sorts of things that he can plan to come into those weeks after that. I mean, life is so hectic. It's beyond busy, not just for me, for everybody. People will call me and they say, I'm sorry to bother you. I know you are so busy. And my answer is everybody is busy. You don't have to be a pastor to be busy. Everybody is busy and we all have more than we can do. Jesus comes to us at actually not with a list of all the stuff that we are to do. He comes to us with a list of all the things he has already done, and isn't that wonderful.
He comes with a list of things he is already done for us. Like the fact that when we worry about maybe dying, because funerals remind us that we are mortal. He is there to remind us that death has been defeated. Amen. That even if you die, you shall not die, h says; one of those mysterious sayings of Jesus. He says that whatever you might be carrying shame over, they've been forgiven. That's the list he has. They've been forgiven. One of the things I really valued with our friend Lonnie whose funeral was yesterday is that early on in his life, he had some very, very big failures in his life. And it adversely affected his children and his family, but he owned up to it and he understood that he was this really big sinner and he needed somebody with a lot of grace. The only one that had that grace with Jesus and he and his wife found each other, they were broken and God healed them through the years. And God's mercy restored his relationship with his family and his children. And he was so proud of his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren. I think he had a tribe as large as the tribe of Levites, by the time he died, he was blessed. But the reason he was so blessed is he understood the fact that his sins had been forgiven in. At times we can live in a lot of fear. Can't we? Fuel prices are going up. Anybody notice that you go to the store and the shelves are more and more bare. And what is there, you are paying two and three times what we paid a year or two ago for does it create fear in any of you?
What Jesus has said. He says, "I have courage and strength for you in the middle of your fears." I have something to bring to you, not something for you to do. I have something for you. I have courage for you. And in this time, when there seems to be so much uncertainty, uncertainty creates all sorts of questions in our lives. Don't they? We've talked about that on many occasions. What should we do? What do we do now? What happens here? And what does God have for us? He has wisdom. He has wisdom for us. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God and he will give liberally. He'll give more wisdom than you need. He is not going to just piecemeal it out.
I've told you this story about when Jacque and I went to Haiti and we were building an orphanage there. And we brought most of our food to eat on the trip. We would have like canned chicken or tuna and little Ritz crackers and stuff. We would take it out to the job site and of course, within, within 10 minutes of arriving on the job site, there is a hundred kids out there watching it. Robert knows all about that. And then it comes time to eat lunch. And some of these little kids, their hair is turning red because of malnutrition. Their tummies are distended. Then we are going to eat. It's like you wanted to go hide under a truck. Our heart is so moved.
And so I gave this one little girl just a little Ritz cracker. Well, I thought the first thing she would do was put the whole thing in her mouth, but she didn't. She had about 15 friends that stood in the line and she broke up one little piece and gave it to them and broke up another her piece and gave it to the next one in the line. And she shared that whole Ritz cracker with like 15 of her friends. And you know what, whatever that little girl gave to those kids, wasn't nutritionally sufficient enough to change their male nutrition. But sometimes that's how we think God duel things out to us, just a little crumb or a little crumb there. But God says, if you lack wisdom, he'll give it to you liberally. So when you are in need of knowledge and information and direction, and you have questions, he has got more than enough.
Jacque: And when we stop and ask him, we need to stop and listen.
Brian: Yes, and believe that he will.
Jacque: Yes. And believe that he will help. I can't even believe how many times I need to have clarity about how to do the simplest thing even, or a difficult thing.
Brian: And if you just slow down—
Jacque: I just ask him and wait and something comes.
Brian: And he comes. It's him. That something is him,
Jacque: The other day. I said, Lord, I have lost my glasses and church. They are here somewhere.
Brian: And the Lord said that angel has been on leave,
Jacque: I always lose my glasses.
Brian: God created a special angel just for Jacque's glasses.
Jacque: I need these glasses, serious. And I just waited. And I felt to go into a cabinet in the conference room and my glasses were inside.
Brian: They were inside the cabinet.
Jacque: How did they get in there?
Brian : I don't know. But God knew they were there.
Jacque: I digress. Sorry.
Brian: That's not a digression, but you needed a question answered.
Jacque: I'm sitting here till I hear where they are.
Brian: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You know what else God does? He carries our burdens. He carries our burdens. We are really good at taking back from God. The things that he wants to actually take from us, aren't we? But he carries our burdens. We have burdens. Everybody has burdens, everybody has concerns. One of the things that Jacque and I have been doing regularly for over a year now is we have a pause and we say, Lord, I give everyone and everything to you. I give everyone who I have a concern over or with and I give everything that I have a concern with to you.
And then of course, circumstances happen that are out of our control, like the passing of Lonnie. There is no way people who cared about him aren't going to feel sorrow with that. Anytime you love and that love is, in a sense, lost, there is going to be a sorrow over that. That's how God made us. That's not unspiritual. That's not being spiritually immature to grieve over the loss of a friend or a spouse or family member. And yet one of the things that happens is when we have sorrow, he will bring us his joy, for he says, blessed of those who mourn for they shall be comforted. He promises us that. He doesn't tell us to avoid sorrow or what's wrong with us when you are sorrowful. But he says, if you have sorrow, I will give you joy. I will give you something that will bring comfort to you.
And then even in the midst of all of our disappointments, he brings us hope. He brings us hope. There are setbacks, which become, if we let them be setups. We have disappointments and losses, but even in the midst of those, God can give us hope. And you know what? There is nothing. When, when you are in a place of disappointment, there is nothing better than hope. Yes. And I hope that hope is going to be a place of hope for you. so many of us are tempted to say, it's too late for me. I've heard that I've heard that people's lives are, are just so messed up. There seems to be like they painted themselves into the, into the proverbial corner. And yet I simply would say it's never too late for the arrival of Christ. If you take a look at history from the time of create to the birth of Christ, roughly 4,000 years that we have of recorded history, there were some pretty dark times during those 4,000 years. They were dark times in the world. They were dark times for the people of Israel. There were terribly dark times. And yet the scriptures say in the fullness of time, God sent his son just at the right time. It's never too late for the arrival of Christ.
Mary and Martha thought it was too late. I mean, if you'd have been here—And how many times have we thought that it's too late for Jesus is to do anything now, but it's never too late for the arrival of Jesus. Let me tell you something, and I can attest to this because I'm getting older, but you will never be too old. You will never be too messed up. You will never be too worn out, nor will you ever be too young, nor will you ever too broken for the arrival of Jesus. Never. Will we be different than the in keep today? Will we open the door to him? Will we make room?
I realize this some years back that God did not give me the job of screening, the applicants of those who he is inviting. It wasn't my job to screen those applicants of all the people that he was inviting. I told this story yesterday about an uncle that Jacque and I had. We loved this uncle. I loved this uncle. He was a Vikings fan. He had been a Vikings fan since the old Metro Fallon stadium days. He had tickets on the 50 yard line and he would always take me to a game every year. We had nothing in common. He never went to church and I was a pastor. As he would say, he was a brick layer and I was a piano player. And yet God had a love that we had for him. He was dying and I went to see him with Jacque. Jacque sang just some songs over him and as he was lying in his bed, I, I said to him, "Uncle Allen, all you have to do is say yes to Jesus. Will you say yes to Jesus?" And he nodded his head and he said yes. He was just like the thief on the cross. He could do nothing. He had nothing left in this life, and yet God's mercy is so great. God had been speaking to him many times during the course of his life and as Bill said earlier, he had said no. But all it took was one yes. All it took was one yes.
Jacque: Can I tell you the rest of that story?
Brian: Yes.
Jacque: My cousin told my mother later that the night that Uncle Allen died— and she is not like a charismatic woman. She does not— It was all new to her, but she heard angels singing in his room.
Brian: That's so cool.
Jacque: They were rejoicing that he had made room for Jesus.
Brian: He had opened the door to the inn of his heart. And so it's never too late to open the door to Christ. You may think your stack of sins is way too high. Your list of failure is way too long, but that knock at the door of your heart is Jesus. It's Jesus. I often think how the life of the inn keeper would've been so different if he would've simply opened the door and said, we'll find a place for you. We'll find a place for you. So I encourage you today: open the door of your heart.
There is a great line in one of our well known Christmas Carols, oh holy night. And the line says this: he appeared and the soul felt its worth. He appeared and the soul felt its worth. We can sometimes sing that song so rapidly and so quickly that that line doesn't really deposit in us. But Jesus in the manger is God's pursuit of us. It's God's pursuit of us. He became part of humanity to show us how much God loved us, but we have to make room you in our hearts for him. I would invite you today, those of you who are watching online and all of you who are here, I would invite you today to allow this season to be the season that you hear that knock on the door of your heart.
I let the Lord into my heart many, many years ago, but you know what, he still comes and knocks on my heart. Every time I hear that knock, I try my best to say, come on in, come on in. So let the prince of peace today give you his peace. Let the king of kings be the one who actually rules our heart. And let's not become a nameless faceless inn keeper in the future, but let us be one who responds and let him write his story in our hearts today. Let him come in to the inn of your heart. Let's pray together.
Father, come in. There are so many voices today. They seem to scream so loud, affecting all that we do. And more often than not, when we follow those voices, we find our lives full of pain and ache and tiredness. But when we say yes to the still small voice of Jesus, in the same way that he was a little infant in a manger, he was laid in a feeding trough and how symbolic that was, for later on, he would say that we needed to eat of him. A place where the animals would eat and get nourishment from was the very same place that he was laid as a child, as an infant that would represent the fact that he was the bread of life. He was where fulfillment would come. And so we welcome you today and we open up our hearts. We open up the doors of our hearts to you. Pastor Jeff, would you come?
Jeff: Thanks, Pastor Brian. Well, you've had two opportunities today to give your hearts to Jesus. Bill gave us one, and Pastor Brian just gave us another no better time to take it than right now. And I love Bill what you said, 3 options. You don't recognize them. You reject them or you receive them. But let me just give you a fourth option. If you don't recognize them, here's a great prayer to pray. Lord, if you are real, please reveal yourself to me. God answers prayers like that. So if you are a on the fence and you are not sure, and you've heard this message, but you are just not sure, you need something. Give him a chance. Because when we open our hearts even that little bit, it makes a difference.
We just want to take time to pray for everybody. Last night, Cheryl and I watched 1946 movie called the Bishop's Wife, Carrie Grant. When you were sharing, Brian, I thought of it because the one thing about that angel that really made you know he was an angel. He was so generous. I thought he is just like our father. He is so generous. And I thought they really understood the heart of God, the people that made that movie. God is so generous. That's why we can so boldly go before his throne because we know how good he is. We don't have to mince words. We don't have to be afraid. We can just come to him and expect him to supply the very things that we need. And one of the things we love to do is pray for each other at times like this. I was wondering, Jacque, we spent time praying for Nadine last night. Could you just give us a little update on how she is doing?
Jacque: She is doing so well. The surgery went great. In fact, she only was in there one night and then released. She needs a lot of rest and she has quite a big scar. We are waiting for all the results from the tests. But she is writing on Facebook and she is looking to the future and she is excited. She said she got such a touch at church last Sunday with her church family praying for her that all fear was gone when she went into surgery. And one more thing, she is 21 weeks pregnant. So they can't give her anything more than Tylenol for her wound. But she has this little cross that she holds in her hand and she won't be away from that. She is just trusting God for a speedy healing.
Jeff: There are just some amazing visions that came with that time of prayer. Shayna had one of the Lord pouring his love into a little bottle for her and corking it and giving it to her. Mary Gibson and had an amazing, she said an open eye vision of Nadine in surgery. Only, she said the doctor was Jesus and the scalpel was his finger. When he went to cut, she said a little small, just insignificant black thing was taken out. And I just thought isn't that when the Lord is at work, our problems are insignificant. We can just remember Nadine pray just especially for the pain management that holy spirit will be there to diminish the pain.
And then others in our church, we just want to continue to pray for a Butch. Lou told me once Lou Bardal, she was talking about when the Lord speaks, he watches over his word to perform it. And Butch, the Lord gave you a word couple months ago now and he is watching over that word to perform it. We are very thankful for what God is doing in your life. There are others we always want to remember in prayer. Rachel's brother, Nathan. is in the hospital with COVID. We really need to lift him up in prayer. The doctors are doing everything they can right now, and we need Jesus to intervene and to help the doctors. Sherry Jones is at home with Covid right now, pretty sick.
Jacque: And Connie Shiffert an old, long-time friend of Hope. She is very, very, very serious with Covid.
Jeff: So we've got Connie, we've got Sherry, we've got Nate, and then others in the church that we've been praying for. We got Brian and Donette. We've got Riley, Dave, Bardal, so many that we are just remembering at this time. So let's just lift him up before the Lord and you might be home or you might be here and you might have a need as well. If you need Jesus to meet you in some way, why don't you just put your hand up to the Lord and we are just going to trust him.
Jacque: Raise your hand, Marvin. We are praying for you too. He is facing some medical challenges.
Jeff: Who's that?
Jacque: Marvin.
Jeff: Put your hand up, Marvin. There you go. Put it higher. Lord, thank you. Lord, Marvin, such a gift. We thank you for the blessing that he is to us. And we thank you for the love you have for him. And we thank you for meeting him right where he is at and being his salvation just the way he needs it. Father, we thank you for meeting each of us. We thank you for what you've done in Butch's life and what you continue to do. We thank you that you are hand of healing is on Nate and on Sherry and on Connie. We thank you, father, that you don't sleep, forget, walk away, put it aside. There is not one of these needs that we've mentioned, there is not one of us who's standing or sitting with our hand up that you are not attentively watching all over us and eager to act in our behalf. So we thank you, Lord. We receive what Jesus gave us when he said it is finished. Thank you, Lord. You completed the work and we receive it now in Jesus name. Pastor Brian, thank you.
Hallelujah. Just a quick announcement: Next Sunday, Pastor Robert is going to be doing number two of three part series that he is doing. So he'll be bringing the message next week. Those of you who want to go back online and refresh your memory of the first message, you can do that. We have that archived online. Those of you who are watching by livestream, you can do that as well if you want to go back and look at that. Let's stand together and let's raise our hands. Jacque, why don't you come up here? Aren't you thankful for the Lord today? Thank you for Christmas. Thank you for the method that you brought your salvation into the world, in a way that everybody would feel valued and welcome. And I encourage you again today to do your best, to think like Jesus and to act like Jesus because we belong to Jesus.
And now may the Lord bless you. And may the Lord keep you may the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you and may the Lord turn his face towards you and give you his peace. And may there always be room in the inn of your heart for Jesus. This we pray in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
God bless you. Have a wonderful day. We invite all of you to be back here tonight, five o'clock. If you are in twin cities area, watching online today, come at five o'clock and we'll have some good time singing some Christmas carols together. Pastor Robert will be over here serving communion with Tequaris, so please feel free to have communion after service.
Transcript taken from the Sunday morning service 12-19-21. If you would like to watch the full service, click the link below.