The point of the sermon I attended online today was that joy only satisfies when Jesus is magnified. We may find happiness, a temporary emotion, without this, but joy is a condition that transcends emotions and states of life. As the pastor said, joy is not found in tradition, but through tradition. This is true when we magnify Christ through these traditions. When we remember what - no, Who - this season is really about. The joy of Christmas, or anything/time really, isn't found in the gifts or the candy or food and certainly not the materialism; it's found when we magnify Christ through Christmas.
May the Lord Jesus Christ save, watch over, protect and guide you all.
from https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1%3A46-55&version=KJV. See here for an ESV version.
The point of the sermon I attended online today was that joy only satisfies when Jesus is magnified. We may find happiness, a temporary emotion, without this, but joy is a condition that transcends emotions and states of life. As the pastor said, joy is not found in tradition, but through tradition. This is true when we magnify Christ through these traditions. When we remember what - no, Who - this season is really about. The joy of Christmas, or anything/time really, isn't found in the gifts or the candy or food and certainly not the materialism; it's found when we magnify Christ through Christmas.
May the Lord Jesus Christ save, watch over, protect and guide you all.
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Agreed.
Keep CHRIST in Christmas!!!!!
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-Numbers 31:17-18
In the interest of being fair and balanced, I think it’s good to look at a variety of verses from the ‘good’ book.