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From the Pastor

From the Pastor
Today, is Christmas Eve. I sure hope you will join us tonight for one of our three services at 5:00 pm, 7:30 pm or 11:00 pm. The reality is that people are going to come into the buildings tonight to “play with fire.” In our hugest numbers of the year, we come together having donned our most festive clothing, with our hearts filled with cheer and joy, surrounding ourselves with the people we love most in life on a night when there’s a fight for seats like no other in the year. The climax of this magical evening is a moment when we literally play with fire. And it’s not just us being some kind of pyro-Presbyterians. Millions of Christians around the globe this evening are flocking into darkened cathedrals, sitting in clapboard meeting houses, and even huddling on sofas behind closed shades in living rooms, — all to play with fire. 
Tonight, we will gaze upon the eternal flame, Jesus Christ, the Light of the World. We will be playing with fire. God will speak to us from that flame on our candle. Even though it is not a Christmas scripture reading, perhaps no words capture Christmas better than from Hebrews 4:16. “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence.” And then it says in verse 22, “Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith.”  
Tonight, the God who dwells in inapproachable light will be approaching you on whatever road you are on or however lost you may be. Tonight God makes us his own. That’s why we play with fire, because nothing can hold a candle to God’s love, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Merry Christmas!
Pastor John  
Quote of the Week
“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” 
C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.