Make Room This Christmas
Imagine the gifts the wise menreceived in return
Join us December 22nd for
Christmas Sunday
at The Kingdom Center
I love the sights and sounds of Christmas! I love the decorations and lights. I love the carols and bells. Mostly, I love the story of Christmas and the hope that this special season has brought to the world. The Savior has come, and the world has never been the same!
I have been talking a lot lately about MAKING ROOM in our lives for Christ. It is easy for each of us to live lives that are so FULL that we have little room for Him. Before we know it, our lives can be filled with things that are far beneath God’s promise and purpose. These things become heavy and cumbersome, and they often create pressure that causes anxiety and fear.
In the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 2, the Bible details the activities of the three Wise Men that had come to worship Christ. They had been traveling for some time following the star and they were not empty handed. The Bible says that they brought gifts for the newborn King. They came, opened up their treasures and laid them before Christ. It’s easy to focus on the GIFTS that they brought, but I want to focus on WHAT THEY TOOK AWAY. Can you imagine? Sure, they traveled a long way. Sure, they had brought expensive gifts. But, none of that could possibly compare to the treasures that they took away. They had been face-to-face with Christ and they would never be the same! Their gifts had simply made room in their lives for that which was worth so much more.
I want to encourage you to do the same this Christmas season; to make a vacancy in your life by bringing your gifts to Christ. On Sunday, December 22 we are joining together as a church family and we are going to make room for Him in our giving. I don’t know what you need, but I do know that what you TAKE AWAY will be much greater than what you bring! As you make room for Him, I know that He will fill your life in a very special way.
Can you imagine there being no room for Jesus?
Join us December 22nd for
Christmas Sunday
at The Kingdom Center
It’s that time of year again, I can hear the sounds of Christmas as the bells play “Joy to the world, the Lord has come”! The cold of winter has finally set in for good, and the flurries are falling as the trees wave their barren branches. But there’s HOPE in the bareness. There is a light shining in the darkness because Jesus, our Redeemer, has come! The baby wrapped in swaddling clothes has broken the silence with the angel’s declaration of “Peace on earth, and goodwill towards all men.” It’s an exciting time if you are a believer.
Luke 2:7 is one of those verses in your Bible that gives room for pause. It says, “Mary brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” Those words “no room” are hard words to read. Can you imagine there being no room for Jesus? Indeed, there should have been some room, someplace for the Savior of the world to be born.
Unfortunately, I don’t think this is so uncommon in the world that we live in and the lives that so many of us lead. We get so consumed with life and its many details that there simply isn’t room for Christ to be birthed in our lives.
This Christmas, I want to urge you and your family to MAKE ROOM. Create a VACANCY so that He can fill it with the JOY and PEACE that He came to bring. Create a space for Him in your home and in your life. I want to invite you to join Steph and me on Sunday, December 22, as we come together as a church family. On that day, we are going to focus our hearts on MAKING ROOM in our WORSHIP and in our GIVING. I challenge you to consider how you will MAKE ROOM for Him this season. God bless you!
He Will Be Born Somewhere
Join us December 22nd for
Christmas Sunday
at The Kingdom Center
In Luke 2:7 your Bible records the well-known words, “there was no room for Him in the inn.” These words issue a challenge across time to where we are today. Like me, I know that you have had the thought; how could this be? And yet, when I look back over my life, there have been many times, just like the inn, it has been so FULL of other things that there was simply NO ROOM for Him.
I wonder how Mary and Joseph must have felt when they were told that there wasn’t a room available? Mary had carried Jesus in her womb for nearly nine months and she knew the time had come. He had to be born “somewhere.” That somewhere ended up being a lowly stable where she laid the savior of the world in a manger.
In this Christmas season I want to remind you - HE WILL BE BORN SOMEWHERE. He longs for that “somewhere” to be in the middle of our lives and in the middle of our difficult situations. He wants to be born into our homes, marriages, finances and physical dilemmas. The question is WILL WE MAKE ROOM? Still to this day our Redeemer is being birthed into hopeless situations bringing PEACE, JOY and HEALING.
Where do you need Him to be born in your life? What situation do you need Him to show up in and declare peace? What area of your family could use His presence? The reality for each is us this; He will be born where there is room. I want to encourage you to make room in your life for Him, for His presence, and for the peace that only He can bring.
On Sunday, December 22, Steph and I want to invite you to a special worship service where we will be making room for Him in our GIVING. Your giving creates a VACANCY in your life that He is invited to FILL! We can’t wait to worship with you!
There has never been a time where our city, our families, our youth and children need us more.
Well, I’m feeling kind of “churchy” today. If I had you in church, I’d tell you to turn to your neighbor and say, “MAKE ROOM”! The Bible tells us that during the very first Christmas there was NO ROOM for Him in the inn. God has impressed upon me to challenge our church family to make room for Christ; in our families, marriages, physical needs, finances, or in any area where we need His presence to show up and bring peace.
Our ministry as a whole is in a season where we need to MAKE ROOM. The explosive growth that we have been experiencing has been so beautiful. We just graduated the largest kLife membership class in the history of our ministry. Each one that God has added is a story of the life-changing power that exists in Christ alone! Each one is a testimony that Jesus saves, heals and restores. When you look around you can clearly see that we need to make room for even more people who need to experience the peace that only He can bring.
We are in the process of building a new facility that will provide the room that we need, and I am excited to hear the stories of life change that take place. God has called each of us to the Kingdom for such a time as this. There has never been a time where our city needs us more, where families need us more, where our youth and children need us more than they do now! It is our LEGACY season! God called the children of Israel into the promised land, but they had to cross the Jordan and take possession of it. They had to make room for God to work on their behalf, and as they made room for God, He, in turn, made room for them. He removed their adversaries one by one until they had possessed the land.
On Sunday, December 22, we are going to join together as a church family and MAKE ROOM in our giving. Just like the wise men so long ago, the gifts and treasures that we bring and lay before the King will be legacy gifts. They will help make room for someone who desperately needs to hear that, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” It will make room in our lives so that Christ can be born into every situation and need that is represented. Steph and I can’t wait to worship with you. Merry Christmas!
Join us December 22nd for
Christmas Sunday
at The Kingdom Center