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Christ the Savior is Born: Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!​​​
Families cherish our Christmas traditions. Year after year, we decorate the tree with the same ornaments, play the same music, bake the same Christmas cookies. Without asking, family members know when they will open presents. If you try to change your family’s Christmas traditions, you might be in trouble! When it comes to family Christmases, people generally don’t like things to change.
Because our celebration of Christmas has so many unchanging traditions, we might overlook the fact that the birth of Christ the Savior meant for the world the most radical change of all. Would things change for the better?
The angels answer the question. They don’t sing “Watch out for impending doom!” They sing “glory” and “peace,” praising God with alleluias!
Christmas Day service
9:00 AM
​Christ the Savior is born: Holy Infant, so tender and mild
From eternity, Jesus has been God, holy and majestic. When we look tenderly at the holy infant, we are looking at the same God who once told the prophet Moses, “No one may see me and live.” Yet, Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds all saw their holy God and survived. How? God became human, hiding his glory within flesh, so that he could come to us without instilling fear or dread.
A famous theologian once said, “We are to think of the Lord’s birth, where the Word became flesh, not as a past event which we recall, but as a present reality on which we gaze.” It’s not that Christ the Savior was born. It’s that Christ the Savior is born.
Christmas 1 service
8:00 AM
​Christ the Savior is Born: He is the Son of God
Christmas holidays mean family time, often with extended family travel and visits. Meals are prepared, gifts are given, memories are made.
But the memories might not all be good. Sometimes there are Christmas hurts or even tragedies. We live in a world still affected by sin.
The sinfulness of the world cannot rob us of the peace God intends to bring through his Son. Christ the Savior is born, and through his life, God brings us into the family. He gives us the rights of redeemed sons and daughters, the privileges of inheritance.
