[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9XNfWNooz4&fs=1&hl=en_US] iBand Chorus – Using only iPads and iPhones, a group of musicians rocked North Point Community Church in Apharetta, Georgia, to the sounds of the season. While banging away on keys, drums and guitars simulated by apps like NLogSynth PRO, the band, called iBand, tore the roof off the place while ringing in some […]
Sermons
Revelation 12: Why Are There So Many Scrooges During Christmas? (Part 4 of 4)
Third, we triumph by the word of our testimony without shrinking from death. Rev 12:11 – They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. What does it mean to triumph by the word […]
Revelation 12: Why Are There So Many Scrooges During Christmas? (Part 3 of 4)
What about the spiritual reality? Here in Revelation, we get to put our spiritual night vision goggles and we see a deeper spiritual message. Let’s read Rev 12:4 starting from the second half of that verse — Rev 12:4 – 4 …The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, […]
Revelation 12: Why Are There So Many Scrooges During Christmas? (Part 2 of 4)
I think if we understood the spiritual importance of this holiday season, we would slow down, we’d be more prayerful, and we’d more attentive to people around us who may be hurting inside. Toward that end, I want to study the 4 characters in this chapter: 1) a woman, 2) a child birthed by that […]
Revelation 12: Why Are There So Many Scrooges During Christmas? (Part 1 of 4)
Text: Revelation 12:1-12, 17, 13:1 Christmas is only a few days away so I wish everyone an early Merry Christmas. For kids, no holiday season even comes close to Christmas. Not Halloween, not the Easter Bunny. No, these are all distant seconds. Growing up, I loved Christmas. I mean, you wake up and under the […]
Romans 8:28 – The Conditional Part of God’s Unconditional Love (Part 4 of 4)
We know this to be the case if we think of a relationship between a parent and their child. I love my kids unconditionally. They could become criminals and land themselves in jail, but as their father, I would love them unconditionally. But how much or how little I have input into their lives is […]