STARTING STRONG

How do we sustain our commitment to looking up for our Redeemer in times like these?  We do it the same way Simeon did it.  He kept believing because he had a promise from the Holy Spirit, so he faithfully came to the temple believing that this could be the day.  Day after day, week after week, year after year passed, but still, Simeon came believing and expecting.  And then on this day, Luke said Simeon “came by the Spirit into the temple.”  We need to be sensitive to the Spirit because when the Spirit is prompting us to go, to worship, and to believe, we need to get up and go. After all, this could be the day we get our breakthrough!

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Christmas: Luke’s Musical

Luke includes four songs in the birth narratives, each following a powerful moment in the narrative.  The early church gave each of these songs a title in Latin, which as the language of Rome, became the main language of the early church.  Today I want to look at these four songs in the order they appear and explore the main message of each of them as an outline for the Christmas story.

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