December 21, 2020
by Dr. Kevin Prather
| Tags: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Bible, Stonebridge Baptist Church, Christmas Eve, Incarnation, Silent Night, Christmas, Choices
What will you do with the gift of Christmas this year? Will you receive the gift of God's Son? Will you worship Him? Will you slow down and remember who and what truly matters, or, will you focus more on the strangeness of the year? This is an opportunity to refocus and be renewed. Each of us has a choice....
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November 30, 2020
by Dr. Kevin Prather
| Tags: Jesus, God, Community, Holy Spirit, Christmas, Incarnation, Peace, Joy, 2020, God's Love
2020 has, by all accounts, been a strange and disorienting and unusual year. For many, it has been a source of discouragement or anxiety or stress or any number of things. This Christmas season is an incredible opportunity to be still and to experience renewal and to refocus on the things that truly matter: namely the amazing gift of God's Son to us....
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November 28, 2018
by Dr. Kevin Prather
| Tags: Christmas, Jesus, Incarnation, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Salvation, Grace, Mercy, Love, Wrath, Light, Darkness, Sacrifice, Cross of Christ, Jesus' Death, Substitionary Atonement
Christmas could (and should) be much more than what we have reduced it to in our culture, and that includes church culture. This Christmas, let us reflect on how serious, and glorious, the incarnation is and what it means....
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December 5, 2017
by Dr. Kevin Prather
| Tags: Jesus, Christmas, Good News, Gospel, Culture, Busyness, Worship, Incarnation, Miracle, Spiritual Refreshment
Don't let 'Cultural Christmas' hijack what could be a holy and worshipful season....
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