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The First Christmas Eve
December 24, 2020 The First Christmas Eve by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Luke 2:6-7 IN 1818, a roving band of actors was performing in towns throughout the Austrian Alps. Their performance on a starry December night in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, impacted local pastor Joseph Mohr as the words of theRead More …
The Real Reason for the Season
December 23, 2020 The Real Reason for the Season by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Isaiah 53:4-6 YOU’VE SEEN IT. SO HAVE I. The phrase is on bumper stickers, it appears on coffee mugs, it often finds its way onto greeting cards, billboards, and church signs. It has become almost synonymous withRead More …
A Simple Season
December 22, 2020 A Simple Season by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Galatians 4:4 THE WONDER OF AMAZON just continues to spread. Tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of thousands of square feet of operations all work with amazing precision to coordinate the receiving, packaging, and shipping of millions of productsRead More …
The Gift That Lives On
December 21, 2020 The Gift That Lives On by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Matthew 25:40 “WHAT IN THE WORLD can I give to ______ this Christmas?” Sound familiar? Sure, it’s probably the most frequently asked question every Yuletide season. In our pocket of society where pampered affluence is rampant, we areRead More …
An Unexpected Gift
December 20, 2020 An Unexpected Gift by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Philippians 2:9-11 CHRISTMAS DAY NEVER arrived so slowly, but finally it dawned. While no one was looking, I had shaken the box enough to know that it had to contain what I had been wanting so badly—right size, right weight,Read More …
The Irony of Incarnation
December 19, 2020 The Irony of Incarnation by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Isaiah 9:2 THE CHRISTMAS STORY HAS been so sanitized and romanticized over the centuries that even Hollywood—as jaded a culture as can be found anywhere—fails to capture the gritty pathos that surrounded Jesus’ arrival. Truth be told, even someRead More …
I Brake for Christmas
December 18, 2020 I Brake for Christmas by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Psalm 46:10 A FEW DECEMBERS AGO, I saw something that I won’t soon forget. The bumper sticker on the back of the car in front of me caught my eye. It made me think. And it even aroused someRead More …
Dangers at Christmas
December 17, 2020 Dangers at Christmas by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Romans 12:2 IN THIS SEASON OF EXTREME BUSYNESS, we Christians need to stay alert to any potential dangers. I’ll mention only four of them . . . along with some strategies that will allow us to combat each risk. First is theRead More …
No Worms in Heaven
December 16, 2020 No Worms in Heaven by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Colossians 3:1, 3 IT HAPPENED TO ME LAST WEEK. Isaac Watts did it again. One of his best hymns (he wrote over six hundred!) lingered in my head for more than an hour before I formed the words withRead More …
Hope for the Weary
December 15, 2020 Hope for the Weary by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Isaiah 50:4 MANY YEARS AGO, my brother, Orville, introduced a hymn to me I’d not heard before. Its moving strains often accompany me as I drive or walk in solitude or return late from a day of demands. ArtRead More …
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