REAL Christmas
Christmas is supposed to mean laughter, happiness, fun, peace on earth, and goodwill toward all.
Or is it?
Might Christmas actually be something that much more resembles our reality - anguish, fear, and heartache right next to lights, music, and gifts?
Is Christmas actually conflict, hurt, and tears alongside happiness, laughter, and fun?
Real Christmas is all the real things of life with real promise.
This Christmas, let’s be part of the Real Christmas.
Christmas Messages
Real Christmas gives us what we need
For Christmas to be real for you and me, we have to see we lack. We might want all kinds of things. But the fact that God sent his Son, not a pot of money, not a new set of laws, and not a new family, means that we don’t just want all kinds of things. We need something that we have no idea what it is.
Real Christmas means you say I lack. I lack and only God can give what I need.
Real Christmas starts real love
Friends, if you haven’t taken a look at what that manger might mean for you, it’s time to look and see. If your love might be a little little now is the time to look. If your heart might be hard, now is the time to hear.
Watch that force come alive and you’ll be able to feel love in ways that you never thought you could.
For that manger itself is the source of love. There righteousness came in Jesus Christ.
There the earthquake was encased.
There the hurricane became human.
There the fire became flesh.
There life became alive.
All so that you and I would love. And our love would know no bounds.
Christmas Festivities with Peace
December 4th 1:00 pm Ladies Christmas Dinner at The Dock at Bayview
December 7th 4:00 - 6:00 pm Otsego Hometown Christmas - cocoa, parade, and security
December 8th 11:00 Christmas decorating
December 15th - 22nd Journey to Bethlehem
December 15th 11:00 am Meal
December 22nd 9:30 Kids Christmas service
December 24th 5:00 pm Christmas Eve service
December 25th 9:30 am Christmas Day