CaryCOG | Cary Church of God
Pastor Jensen brings us today's message: "Come & Receive New Beginnings"
Join Us Next Sunday:
Special Christmas Day service
At 10:30am next Sunday, Christmas Day, join us as we celebrate Christ's birth with a very special candlelight service. As Christmas Day only falls on a Sunday about once every 10 yrs or so, we will NOT have our usual Christmas Eve service, but will instead celebrate "The Candle of Hope".
** Please Note **
This will be an abbreviated family service, so childcare will not be available. However, battery operated candles will be available so that young children can participate in this special service.
End-of-Year Giving Notice:
With 2016 soon coming to a close, with it also comes the end of the tax year. As you prayerfully consider making any additional tax-free donations, whether it is for Project: Zoom or to the general church fund, please note that all donations must be received by Dec. 31, 2016 in order to receive tax credit for 2016.
Matthew 1:18 NKJV
I. Come & Receive a Miraculous Conception
(Matthew 1:18)
Quote:
Conceive: it’s not passive, but an active verb. Its root in Latin means nothing less than “to seize, to take hold of.” When grace conceives in you, take hold of God.
Ann Voskamp
Quote:
…anytime you’re a safe place for another soul or you open and conceive grace – you become a womb for God.
Ann Voskamp
Quote:
He was created of a mother whom He created.
He was carried by hands He formed.
He cried in the manger in wordless infancy.
He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
St. Augustine
II. Come & Receive a New Dream
(Matthew 1:19-21)
Matthew 1:19-21 NKJV
Quote:
We all want progress… [but] if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
III. Come & Receive a God Who is With Us
(Matthew 1:22-25)
Matthew 1:22-25 NKJV
Quote:
There is always that – we are not spared of all trials, but we are always spared of the trials that have no gifts… what is stretching Mary’s skin is God. (What is always stretching us is God.)
Ann Voskamp