Trinity Faith Church
Sunday Worship @ TFC, December 17
"The Star of Bethlehem" Sermon Series "A Journey of Peace" Pt. 4
Locations & Times
Trinity Faith Church Adult Sunday School @ 9:30 AM Sunday Worship @ 10:30 AM Sunday Evening Prayer @ 6:00 PM
2264 S Kansas Ave, Liberal, KS 67901, USA
Sunday 10:30 AM
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https://tinyurl.com/tfcquestionsI. Advent is a season of great expectation, and as we embark on a journey—actually join in an epic journey that began more than two thousand years ago—and follow the star and discover the light of the world, I pray that it will be a journey that will realign our expectations and experience of the Christmas season.
II. When we think of peace, we often think of the absence of hardship, trouble, violence, and fear; as the hymn, "It Is Well With My Soul" so beautifully captures, the journey of peace is not immune from those things; in fact, they are central to the story!
III. The good news is that we live in a world where the Prince of Peace has walked, and where He had an understanding of how it functioned; He has come, and He is present, and His peace is available to us today!
IV. Only the mercy of God shown to us in the sending of His only Son, Jesus, could bring the cure for sin, and it was into that type of world that Jesus came, and spoke the words, “Peace. Be still.”
V. By sending His Son, God sent peace into the world, and when we abide with Him, we abide with peace; as we abide with peace, we learn to trust God with the unpeaceful parts of our lives, and we find ourselves transformed from within.
VI. Our lives are a constant balance of joy and pain, as we walk through the experiences of life; in fact, it’s often the pain or struggle that magnifies the power of joy!—and it’s in that statement that we find the dichotomy that the message of the angel to those shepherds on that night when Jesus was born, is for us as well: “Do not be afraid!”
VII. The inner and outer chaos, anxiety, noise, and busyness of life may not change, but we can experience peace!—why? Because we trust the One in control!
VIII. Jesus came as the Prince of Peace, and we can abide in Him, and experience peace in our souls; but what about the fact that peace doesn’t always come to the world around us? Against that setting, our path may not look much like a journey of peace, even as we look toward yet another Christmas.
IX. So often we come to God asking Him to change our circumstances, or change those around us, and sometimes He does, but more often, He changes us! He changes our hearts, and our perspectives!
X. His peace will sustain us through our difficulties, which may be great, but are also momentary in the light of eternity.
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