First Sunday Of Advent [A Real Christmas]

December 1, 2024 is the first Sunday of the Advent season. This sermon reminds us of the high expectations of a real Christmas.

It's natural to think the way to prevent disappointment is to set lower expectations. The opposite is true with Christmas. So when we find "the most wonderful time of the year" hasn't always been so wonderful, we have been trained to lower our expectations for Christmas this year. Instead, this is the time of year when God teaches us to look for more.

This week we see how God wants us to look for a bigger reason for why Jesus came to earth. It's easy to look to Jesus for help only for specific problems or only on specific occasions. But God taught his people - and wants to teach us - to expect in Jesus a king who saves us. The reason Jesus came was to be our perfect and total Savior.

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