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Micah 5: 2-5a
Hebrews 10:5-10
Luke 1:30-45 (46-56)
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Merry Christmas from your staff to all of you. We pray Christ’s love has surrounded each one of YOU. Enjoy the day of Christ’s birth with your family and friends.
Pastor, Glenda, Mary, Donna & Don
Sometimes you miss the bus… but sometimes, the bus misses you. This morning Leah was diligently waiting outside in the designated spot as she watched the school bus approach, but it did not slow down. It kept humming down the road… right past our house. She ran back to mom watching from the door and said “the bus left me”.
We can miss out because we’re distracted or busy with something else, or we can feel left out, or left behind as things that pass us by, through no fault of our own. Thankfully, our Lord’s coming to us is NOT one of those things. His coming at Christmas is to redeem all people from the least to the greatest, from the lowliest shepherd to wisest, wealthiest sage from afar. He comes to you and I, and to all we know. We bring our gifts, and we worship at the manager and the foot of the cross.
When he comes again in glory, at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil 2:5-11). Have no fear! Your God and Lord is with you and for you – now and forever, and nobody will miss his coming.
Leah’s bus driver did turn around and come back for her – praise the Lord! When the trumpet sounds on the last day and we meet the Lord in the sky, he’ll pick you up on the first pass!
So, dear friends, Merry Christmas to you and yours as you celebrate the Christ child born to save us! God’s richest blessings to you and on all your gatherings.
“From heav’n above to earth I come
To bear good news to ev’ry home
Glad tidings of great joy I bring,
Where-of I now will say and sing:
Welcome to earth, O noble Guest,
Through whom the sinful world is blest!
You came to share my misery,
That You might share Your joy with me.”
LSB 358 – From Heaven Above to Earth I Come
Merry Christmas!
Pastor DeHope
