2024 BLC Advent and Christmas Services

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✙　2024 ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS SERVICES　✙
To be human is to understand what it means to fear. Fear elevates and prolongs our anxiety or our shame as we choose to avoid addressing our mistakes - and the mistakes of others - out of concern that we’ll only make things worse. The season of Advent helps us long for a different reality: one ruled by peace rather than fear. In this series, “Christ’s birth and the promise of his second coming mean peace is breaking through.” For the Son of God was born into our tribulation, despair, and fear not just to comfort us but to bring an end to whatever terrifies us most. He overcomes death itself, cleanses us of our sin, defeats the evil one, and makes us righteous. Through faith in our Savior, born Immanuel, we cannot be rejected, we have nothing to be ashamed of, and we have the promise of life everlasting. In Christ alone, fear is exchanged for peace. Despite your worries, anxieties, and very real suffering, we have a God who stands resolute to give us his “peace which surpasses all understanding” (Phil. 4:7).
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• 7:00 p.m., December 4th • No Fear of the Future •
How does the incarnation of Jesus secure for us peace when our inability to see the future fills us with dread?
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• 7:00 p.m., December 11th • No Fear of Failure •
Jesus delivers mercy to us who are consumed with worry about not doing enough.
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• 7:00 p.m., December 18th • No Fear of Lack
How does Jesus’ advent meet our fear of not having enough?
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• 7:00 p.m., December 24th • No Fear of Man
Jesus who is greater than anyone who has ever lived was born in weakness to lift us, despite our weaknesses, into the kingdom of God.
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• 10:00 a.m., December 25th • No Fear
Jesus has been born to give you a peace that fills all our fears.
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God bless you and your family as we celebrate the coming and birth of Christ Jesus, our Saviour, every Advent and Christmas Season!
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