There will always be people who criticize our worship, our giving of time for Sunday School, Sunday worship, or Bible study on Wednesday nights. Some will say that our giving in tithes and offerings is a waste and that all the church wants is your money. The takers are always calculating, always thinking about what they can get rather than what they can give in worshipping and in service to the Lord.
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.